Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro's action: "Many times in my own life I have wished that I could have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener on its dignity than many a pencil-clutching U.S. newsman who used...
...Sydney airport, a sick, sad-faced man in his 60s, traveling under the name of Edward Gray, boarded an airliner and flew off for Rome. After almost nine years in Australia, he would probably never see it again. His true identity: famed Maestro-Composer Eugene Goossens, resigned as conductor of the Sydney Symphony, his spirit and reputation broken by his conviction and $225 fine for importing pornographic movies and pictures into Australia (TIME, April...
Died. B. A. (for Benjamin Albert) Rolfe, 76, jovial maestro (1928-31) of radio's original Lucky Strike dance orchestra; of cancer; in Mansfield, Mass...
...Maestro. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Patrolman Ed MacNeil spotted four-year-old Aubrey H. Osborne Jr. driving casually along in a model T Ford, watched openmouthed as Aubrey parked perfectly after being signaled to the curb, wrote out a ticket to the boy's father, who protested: "Why, he's been driving for two years...
Australia's eminent London-born Maestro-Composer Sir Eugene Goossens, 62, caught with a load of indecent films, photos and books at Sydney Airport (TIME, March 26), was fined a maximum $225 for bringing "prohibited imports" Down-Under. But Sir Eugene's lawyer hinted at a thickening plot: blackmailers had forced Goossens to haul the pornography from Europe...