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exhibiting in Boston and New York, Eliot opened a small gallery in Boston. But he was turning more and more to words as a medium of self-expression. After a stint with the MARCH OF TIME, and wartime duty in the Office of War Information, he joined TIME in 1945 as a contributing editor...
...orchestra when he was 13 ("If no one is going to give you an orchestra, you have to go out and make one"). By the time he took over the Cincinnati in 1947, he had formed half a dozen of. his own orchestras, had also put in a teaching stint at the University of Michigan. To put together his Fish Creek outfit he raided virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. In five seasons Johnson has conducted no fewer than 15 world premieres and eleven U.S. premieres...
...already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony, the charmed Rasputin pressed gifts upon him. At 42, as a Hollywood musical director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last week, with the Soble spy ring (TIME, Aug. 19) cracked as a result of his information, and Boris Morros' counterspy career over at last, the Justice Department allowed...
...wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious way, it has the universal appeal of the American dream as it once again comes true...
...other students played The Game on experimental TV (call letters: W6XAO) from a tiny studio over a car dealer's garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force (a pilot instructor in B-17s and B-29s), Stokey returned to broadcasting, amazed that no one had yet put The Game...