Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maazel is among the very few Americans who rank Maazel that high but his appreciation of himself is widely shared in Europe where, in the past few years, he has conducted more orchestras than most people could shake a stick at. He disap peared from American music in 1945 after six years as Little Lorin, the boy won der. Adolescence- its fuzzy cheeks and squeaky voice- had done him in -"I lost my market value as soon as I ceased to be a monstrosity." Sobering up in Pitts burgh, he studied hard, learned the vio lin, became a linguist...
...schoolboy hero of Buchan's The Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...
...scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional trips into what he called "the interior" in search of funds. During his numerous sojourns in jail, he carried a walking stick during exercise hours. Because he said he had once escaped from Ellis Island by trudgen crawl, he was celebrated as a swimmer until the day that he fell into a swimming pool before dozens of surprised witnesses and sank without a bubble. Hollywood understood him. His life deserved an Oscar...
...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...
...hard to believe that the same Northeastern team gave Boston University a close fight last week. The Huskies spent most of the game trying to get a stick on the puck, and managed to get off only 19 shots. Harvard, on the other hand, shot 57 times...