Word: maestro
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...searching for a worthy successor to lead the prestigious Orchestre de Paris. Tradition demands a Frenchman. But quality has now decreed an Austrian: Herbert von Karajan, 60, who is already busy enough as conductor of Salzburg Festivals and the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. In Paris, the indefatigable maestro will double as music director and conductor, lead the Orchestre in a series of concerts at home, plus several festival appearances and tours of Japan and the U.S. Says he: "I consider the Orchestre a French institution and that it must be directed by a Frenchman in the near future...
...Johnny Maestro The Limelites...
...French railway station a woman bids goodbye to a friend. Then she boards the train-and sneaks out on the other side of the platform. A classic Hitchcock opening for a film that is missing only one vital ingredient: Alfred Hitchcock. In the maestro's place, however, is his greatest disciple, Director Francois Truffaut, who considers Hitchcock "an artist of anxiety" to be placed alongside Kafka...
...Johnson-he has 35 honorary doctorates-has yet to delineate his future role at the university. However, despite campus peace demonstrations and anti-Administration rallies, the prospect of learning government's inner workings from the maestro has already excited students. "I'd jump at the chance to have the President as a professor," says Senior Annette Bingham, a government major. "His experience in government would be invaluable to almost any student," allows Junior Larry Upshaw, who opposes Johnson on Viet Nam. The sentiment, however, is not universal. "If Lyndon Johnson came here to teach government," snirted a coed...
...zinging in the first ball while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They're younger," allowed a Philharmonic musician. Not so, snapped the maestro: "When we play a game...