Word: baton
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...anywhere else. After all, nobody knows who conducts in Vienna when it isn't Von Karajan." More to the point, everybody knows that it is Bing who calls the tunes at the Met. Great conductors usually have egos to match, and the inevitable collision between Bing and the baton men caused such autocratic maestros as George Szell and the late Fritz Reiner to boycott the house...
...sings and hums some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
...week's end, more than at any time in the recent past, the nation's stock and bond men seemed to be watching the baton of the maestro in the White House...
...Buddy Guy, 29, can be a compelling singer but prefers to let his guitar do the singing for him, from deep moans and explosive shouts to squeals of delight. As a teen-ager in Baton Rouge, he made his own guitar with wires pulled from a window screen, now plays lead in Junior Wells's group. Though he never practices ("My wife won't let me play at home"), he ranks as one of the finest blues instrumentalists...
Today's top-responsibility middle-ager might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is watched by patient and public with rapt attention. Whether he is a Protestant evangelist (Billy Graham, 47) or a Catholic Archbishop (John Patrick Cody, 58, of Chicago, a U.S. cardinal-to-be), he lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president...