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...appears that Maestro Solti in stabbing himself with his baton is perpetuating a tradition. It began with Jean Baptiste Lully, who, as an early ensemble conductor, clobbered his toe with the large cane he used to gesture toward his 24 violins. He died of resultant blood poisoning...
...year-old frump having an embarrassing amount of trouble hanging on to her husband, played by Henry Fonda. What to do? Why, radical plastic surgery, of course, from head to toe. Even after all that, however, Hank will still have none of her. That's the story line for Ash Wednesday, just filmed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. A bit sad but not very credible, since the wife is played by Elizabeth Taylor, who looks lovelier than ever as she emerges from her bandages...
Meanwhile, the blossoming scoring threat on attack has seen Captain John Hagerty take the reins from sophomore Jim Quinn, earning ten points in the last two games. In Ithaca, N.Y., Hagerty was double-teamed but still got loose for four goals and an assist. However, he did injure a toe in competing on the astro turf at Cornell...
...tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
...that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance of Die Walküre at the Met, he managed to hold his note for the full count and complete the show...