Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose leg was in traction, a carefully prepared script, but he dropped it on the floor at a crucial point of the broadcast . . . Woolf had just asked The Cougar...
Last week the board accepted Rosen-stock's resignation-he complained of too much nonmusical work, e.g., bookings and business negotiations. He will return to Tokyo, to conduct the Nippon Broadcasting Symphony, of which he was musical director before and after World...
...voiced vigorous disagreement with Aldrich's finding. McCarthy said the subcommittee had "not only the right but the obligation" to conduct the inquiry...
Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
...Years After. The most charitable explanation of John's conduct was that he was laboring under some kind of perverted patriotism or pique. In 1944 John had been a member of the famous Von Stauffenberg conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, John's brother was shot; John himself fled to England. Many Germans regarded John as a traitor for joining the British when Germany was fighting for her life. The U.S. and West German intelligence agencies did not trust him. Largely at British insistence, he got the secret-service...