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Very friendly, very businesslike, he speaks in the pulpit with machine-gun rapidity, pounds his palm with his clenched fist to stress his points. His preaching and lecturing have taken him as much as 30,000 miles a year, most of which he covered by plane...
...Mexico City (TIME, June 5) than the National Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski in the '303. A frequent attendant at Toscanini's rehearsals, concerts...
Under the fist of her dictatorial Government, Ecuador seethed. Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3. But everyone in the little Andean republic expected it to be a fraud. The Government had carefully exiled, outlawed or imprisoned the leaders of the opposing Democratic Front. It had strengthened its Carabinero (police) garrisons in the chief cities. By hook or crook it intended...
...center of the Pacific front the Navy shook a heavy fist at Japan's front door. One of the most powerful task forces the Pacific has ever seen reached out to within 1,200 miles of Tokyo, sent off carrier planes to bombard Marcus Island...
...First champion on record: Theagenes of Thasos, Olympic victor of 450 B.C. His standard punching equipment included the cestus, a fist-stiffener of leather bands loaded with iron. He won 1,406 contests, in which he killed most of his opponents...