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...gasoline engine that confronted Architect Stone, 54, with his first problem. "In India it is so hot," Stone explains, "that cars have to be parked under shelter or else they turn into ovens. To get them under cover, we raised the building on a marble platform or podium. We are using a precedent of antiquity. Even the Taj Mahal is built on a great square platform...
From the protected podium of their Chicago convention hall, a platoon of Democratic orators laid about them right and left. Samples...
...popeyed, bushy-haired little man had scarcely raised his baton to signal the opening of the piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
...Ferrara, 45, guest-conducted the major orchestras of Italy in the '30s and early '40s, became his country's most famed conductor after Toscanini himself. But one day in 1940, while conducting Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, Ferrara suddenly stiffened and crashed backwards off the podium in a dead faint. In the next several years he fainted so regularly on the podium that he became known throughout Italy as "The Fainting Maestro." When he consulted doctors, they could only point out what he already knew: that he lost his genial manner in the presence of music...
...each side of podium stand Concertgebouw flunkeys, eyes popping. "Heathen cabal," says...