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...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
Cried one hoarse but happy observer-Arturo Toscanini-as he shuffled from his aisle-seat listening post in Studio 8H: "Now here is a conductor-a good conductor." Last week, after Guido had finished his first NBC Symphony concert, listeners agreed...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guido Cantelli conducts a concert of Haydn and Hindemith...
...tiny oaken door stepped a frail, bearded little man, Bernhard Berenson, the world's greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art. Bobbing and nodding his white beard to the ovation, he hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers broke out anew; and "Il Bibi," clutching his gifts in small, gloved hands, bowed and beamed his thanks...
...Guerard Pignatelli, sixtyish, Bluffton, S.C. shopkeeper's daughter who became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff...