Word: ringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...school, take on a MacVicar-Brown combination in the 100-yd. freestyle. In the 100-yd. backstroke, it will be Fred Glynn, Arthur Phinney, and Dave Murray for the Alumni against Tom Woods and John Steinhardt, Ulen's current proteges. Don Ulen, Hal's son, and Julius Vielman, a ringer from this year's varsity, will be in the 100-yd breaststroke against Chuck Hoelzer and Larry Ward...
First on the program yesterday was Hugh Shepley '51, pictured at right practicing his specialty as a ringer in the annual Wellesley hoop races. Shepley also claimed acquaintanceship with indian clubs, rubber balls, and chinaware...
...Ringer. In Washington, William McClaine complained to hospital nurses that he had tripped and chipped his front teeth, conceded, after coughing up a .38-caliber bullet, that there had been an argument over a game of horseshoes...
Schussboomer leaned back in his chair and gently blow a smoke ring toward the hat Rack. With a slight tinkle it landed for a perfect ringer, and the old master went on with his tale...