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...PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY, which has struggled along under guest conductors since Fritz Reiner left in a huff (TIME, March 8, 1948), chose a bustling German-born American: William Steinberg, 52, who has made a name for himself as leader of the Buffalo Philharmonic since...
...Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
Under the auspices of the United Nations Council, future U.N. delegates are being trained here in all the techniques necessary to their profession including the Gromyko method of quitting a meeting in a huff. This is one of the lesser-known activities of the student U.N. Council which, besides sponsoring speakers and forums, also makes policy suggestions to the U.N. Secretariat and the State Department...
...Russians filled their lungs for a mighty huff & puff at next month's San Francisco Conference. The nation which fought the Japanese exactly six days wanted to have a loud last-minute say in the Japanese peace treaty, though it had steadfastly refused to be cooperative during the past eleven months the U.S. has been patiently negotiating terms with its allies...
...talk, too." But Freddy was on his grandfather's delivery truck only a week and three days when Teacher Williams tracked him down in great excitement. Dr. Serge Koussevitzky was conducting at the Philadelphia Academy of Music that night; Music Patron Dr. John Noble and Concert Manager William Huff, who had heard Freddy, wanted him to sing for the conductor...