Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although protocol does not absolutely require it, state dinners are usually stag when the guest of honor-in this case a bachelor-is "unaccompanied by ladies...
Eleanor Roosevelt, tireless globetrotter, was the guest who mattered in England last week. "She is welcome not only for the great name she bears," observed the London News Chronicle, speaking for a great many people, "but for her own endearing qualities of heart and mind...
...year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...
...Beinum plans to fly the Concertgebouw on its first trip to the U.S. next year. One American who knows a lot about orchestras has already given his verdict on Amsterdam's. Said Leopold Stokowski, after guest-conducting the Concertgebouw last year: "A superb instrument...