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Your article entitled "Poison Pen" [TIME, April 12] has all the markings of a wait-till-next-week serial...
...years now, the "poison" of Arturo Toscanini has been seeping out into the world. Drugged by it, millions of music lovers (and not a few critics) have come to regard all of the Maestro's music with dumb and unquestioning adoration. Certainly he has brought the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi to life as no other man has. He is now a white-haired little man of 81, and when a human being reaches that age, his critics, remembering his finer hours, are apt to temper their judgments with mercy...
...need make that kind of apology for Toscanini-and no one ever has. The "poison" that he spreads has only grown more potent and magical with the years. Today, the crowds that choke Manhattan's Radio City on Saturday nights for the Maestro's broadcast concerts hear the music of a man who is without question the greatest living conductor. They also look upon-and this is Toscanini's secret -an incorruptible man in a corruptible world...
...lonely cabin near the Sikanni River in Northern British Columbia, Trapper John Pich, 38, lay abed. Two days before he had eaten tainted food. Now his belly was bloated and he was in mortal agony. Primitive John Pich thought he would die if the poison was not taken from his stomach...
...vicar, who is now pretty sure he knows who Big Baby is, is not dull, but at week's end he had still not named the poison penman of Robin Hood...