Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Character." He likes to think of himself as shy, humble, unassuming, courteous-and, off the podium, he usually is. Toscanini the musician seems to be almost as fearful an object to him as it does to others. After an explosive day of ranting, raving, stomping and swearing in rehearsal, he will sometimes sidle up to an intimate friend at a party, and say with downcast eyes: "I have a bad character." Most of his friends know the right response. "No, Maestro, you don't have a bad character; you just have a bad temper." But he will continue...
There was little jazz left on 52nd Street. Even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets; more bald spots, cigars and paunches. Said an old swing musician : "It was a pretty rugged street to start off with and you couldn't hurt it much. But it's lost its charm...
...this common meeting ground stands 20th Century journalism's great responsibility. Journalism has to talk to the physicist, his wife, his musician son and his political neighbor all at once. In its way and its world, journalism has to do as good a job as the women chattering at the well...
Like a persistent June bug, U.S. Music Czar James C. Petrillo hit the ceiling again. What set him off this time was a television performance of Aïda, with the actors pantomiming the words of an offstage record. In his A.F. of M. tradesheet, The International Musician, Petrillo denounced the "televisers who employ live musicians only on a casual basis and have indicated no present inclination to staff their stations with live musicians." The argument sounded fine; the only trouble with it, said the televisers, was a longstanding Petrillo ban against the employment of live musicians in television. Petrillo...
Ozzie has always had an appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...