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When he made his debut as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1940 Lorin Maazel was a plump little child, no taller than a cello and braver than a flute. "I have yet to prove my mettle," said the ten-year-old maestro after climbing down from the podium where he had proved himself a wizard. Last week, at 32 Maazel was again before the Philharmonic, a wizard with plenty of mettle, especially by his own reckoning. "I am considered " he proclaimed, "the leading conductor of my generation...
...ministers took the oath of office last week beneath the Bundestag's plump, lead-grey German eagle, Adenauer lolled in a black leather chair, looking more than ever like a wily Sioux chieftain clad in a cutaway. Dapper, handsome Dr. Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, sat perkily in a front-row seat. Pink-cheeked Dr. Erhard barely said good morning to Adenauer, and glanced casually through a newspaper during the Chancellor's brief speech...
Small Man's Power. Wall Street's professionals are putting their money on blue chips that offer plump dividends and have steady growth records. The professionals are particularly high on those oil and aerospace companies whose earnings have been on the rise. They are notably cool toward most onetime "glamour" stocks, including many of the electronics and discounting issues, which fell fast during the market break but are still selling for 20 or more times earnings. The conservatives like to stick with issues closer to 15 times earnings...
...excitement of the Batch concerto enlivened the concluding Mozart Symphony 29 in A Major, K. 201. Delicate and graceful, the strings were also plump in the right spots; and the horn solos of Glen Sproul put muscle behind the piece's fair complexion...
Tremendous Humbug. The man who challenged the masters was short-legged, plump and swarthy, with violently staring eyes. He wore his hair in bangs to conceal two hornlike protuberances that jutted from his forehead. Contemporaries noted that there was something catlike in his manners, his wit and his sulks. Wrote Poet André Suares: "Just as the cat rubs itself against the hand, Debussy caresses his soul with the pleasure which he invokes." A natural bohemian, the composer spent nights roaming Montmartre with celebrities of the period ranging from Mata Hari to Marcel Proust...