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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munch's baton technique is perhaps his most unique characteristic. One moment he may be beating time with the sparest possible motion, left hand by his side, and the next he literally whips up the orchestra with violent arm movements. He conducts not only with his arms but with his entire body. During the performance of a choral work here recently, he was conducting four separate elements of the orchestra with different parts of his body, all the while singing the French words along with the chorus and carefully exaggerating his lip movements of assist the singers in pronunciation...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: Charles Munch Becomes New Conductor of Boston Symphony This September | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Over 120 college-students, golf clubs in hand, will scramble over Oakwood Country Club tomorrow in the first day of the New England Intercollegiates. Harvard's six-man team has not yet been named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Enters N.E. Tournament | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...first is a superb juggler, the second stands on the forefinger of his right hand in astonishingly precarious locations, and the third skips rope on a very high wire. Such performances are the stuff that circuses are made of. Everything they wear, every move they make, is vivid, dramatic, extravagant. Brunn generates more color than all the John Murray Anderson extravaganzas put together. Never for the a second does he stand still. Not does he ever simply catch anything; he grabs things out of the air. He is showman, and the circus is nothing if it is not a show...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Eliot broke a 7 to 7 tie in the last inning to hand Winthrop its second loss of the season. Jim Rossiter dubbed a scratch hit towards third and Jim Hope singled on an awkward pop fly to give the Elephants men on first and second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Nine Slugs Bunnies, 16-3; Eliot Noses Out Winthrop, 8-7 | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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