Word: toscaninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past year, since he has had a television set in his home, Toscanini has become an authority on boxing. Although he never attended fights because he considered them "savage," he now knows all the rules and points. When friends visit him at his eight-acre, 22-room estate overlooking the Hudson at Riverdale, they often find him watching a fight, jumping up & down in his chair like an eight-year-old. When a fighter is knocked down, he leaps up, thrusts his finger at the prostrate figure on the screen, yells...
...also likes children's programs on television. A friend recently caught him watching Du Mont's program "Small Fry Club," asked him, "What are you watching, Maestro?" Toscanini replied, never taking his eyes from the screen: "Fry Small." Last month, when NBC first televised his concert, the Maestro watched the audience and musicians on a set in his dressing room until it was time...
...Pancia." Toscanini himself is still in fighting trim. He is slightly heavier than he once was, but likes to point to his midriff and say, "Look, no pancia.'" He can still bound up stairs two at a time, although he seldom does because, he says, people think it's undignified. Often before rehearsals he jumps up on an office couch, feet together, to test his legs. Before a recent performance, he jumped up & down trying to reach the ceiling, crying, "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year...
When, on their golden wedding anniversary, NBC gave the Maestro and buxom Carla Toscanini a clock that supposedly would run for 50 years without rewinding, Toscanini beamed happily and said: "Just think, when this clock stops, no one here in this room will be here but me." Last week Carla was in Italy, and son Walter and his family were staying with the Maestro at the big house in Riverdale. Daughter Wanda visits frequently (with her pianist husband, Vladimir Horowitz). He often talks by telephone with his other daughter Wally, the Countess Castel-barco, who lives in Italy...
...Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...