Word: downbeat
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...