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...artist himself is a brisk, cheery little fellow of 57 bearing an amazing resemblance to the dwarf named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...
...Specially constructed with its bell tilted upward at a 45-degree angle. Dizzy discovered the new twist after a party accident bent his horn. When he played it, he was amazed: "For the first time I heard myself play...
...five-card rummy called "Dime Tonk." One night he played pool so intensely that he missed the Barons' bus when the team left for a doubleheader in St. Louis. "A mile or so out of town," says Piper, "here comes a taxi pulling up alongside, honkin' its horn, and Willie jumps out, screamin' like a bird: 'What you gonna do? You gonna leave me? I'm a pro ballplayer here. You can't leave...
...Wornout Horn. Germans and Austrians began to eye Americans with new respect, but the orchestra played through some hard months: Conductor Adler got his discharge; so did half of the orchestra at about the same time. It limped along, periodically hit by transfers and discharges...
...years and two conductors later, the symphony was in danger of collapse. It had played its repertory almost to death (the sound-effects man completely wore out his taxi horn on Gershwin's An American in Paris), and at some performances the concert hall all but emptied for good at intermission time. But the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos got the ear of General William M. Hoge, Commander...