Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undeniable fact: U.S. symphony orchestras frequently pass up American conductors for colorful Europeans who have neither outstanding talent nor great experience. (Even the undeniably gifted Leopold Stokowski had only conducted a symphony orchestra once or twice before in his life, when, in 1909, he was appointed chief of the Cincinnati Symphony.) San Francisco-born Alfred Wallenstein and Kansas-born Karl Krueger lack neither talent nor experience. Wallenstein started his career as an infant-prodigy cellist at the age of six, toured South America as a side show with the late great Anna Pavlova, studied in Germany with famed Cellist Julius...
Wiry, bespectacled Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill Co., last week put this question bluntly to a Cincinnati conference of the Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar prosperity. He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent. Now Armco's president thinks it is time for other black books, for more old-fashioned...
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...Insect World. In Cincinnati, George Frank, a gypsy, was charged with trying to evade the draft by buying a wife and three children for $500. In Ithaca, N.Y., a local draft board sympathetically postponed the induction of a young man who had swallowed a hornet...
...started last summer when Conductor Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony gazed into the blue vacation waters off the Maine coast. What could he do in the war effort? What music would forward the spirit of the times? At length Conductor Goossens wrote to 26 modern composers asking for instrumental flourishes of the sort known as fanfares. Nineteen responded. Six Goossens fanfares are now being played by the NBC Orchestra in six weekly broadcasts of Music at War.* They are Morton Gould's Fanfare for Freedom; Henry Cowell's Fanfare for the Forces of Our Latin-American Allies...