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...Toscanini offered no explanation, but Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC's musical director and the Maestro's longtime friend, made an authoritative guess: "Frankly, I think he was bored. Most of his old friends in Italy are dead now. And he missed TV; he loves to watch prizefights and all the shows and concerts. It's just a more peppy life here. Then, I think he sort of missed the amenities of living in America. Over there, things are apt to go wrong. Here, everything works smoothly- the phones and the radio and everything . . . But most...
A.F.L. Musicians Boss James Caesar Petrillo was deeply annoyed when he heard that one of his boys, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, had made some unauthorized (by Petrillo) recordings in Vienna last March. Now, getting wind that Maestro Rodzinski might cut a few more longhair platters in Europe, Little Caesar thundered: "If he wants to scab, he'd better get out of the union. And if he leaves...he won't be worth a plugged nickel. He'd walk out on the stage and [our members] would walk out on him. That's what would happen...
...Rome, Maestro Arturo Toscaninl, 85, bothered by a year-old knee injury, put his ailing leg in the hands of Hypnotist Achille ("The Sorcerer of Naples") D'Angelo, widely known in Italy for cures attributed to his mesmeric touch...
...over what, and how, the conventional men are willing to drive. Not for Purdy the "chrome piled on chrome and tin upon tin." Lovingly he writes of Designers Ettore Bugatti, Fred Duesenberg, Frederick Henry Royce and of Driver Tazio Nuvolari. To Purdy, as to most addicts, Nuvolari is II Maestro, "indis putably the greatest driver who ever lived." Not on "dull" tracks like the Indianapolis Speedway did II Maestro show his genius, but in grueling road races run day & night. Nuvolari, now 60 and retired, was "hard on his mounts, a great flogger of automobiles, a car killer...
Since 1938, RCA Victor has three times recorded a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-only to have Perfectionist Toscanini refuse to let any of them be released. Last week, at 85, the Maestro told Victor to go ahead and release recording No. 4 next fall. "This," he said, "is the closest I can get . . . I am almost satisfied this time...