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Murchison will build a 574-mile pipeline eastward from McAllen, Texas, gather gas from producers along the way and deliver it to Houston's Baton Rouge station. In turn, Houston will build a pipeline to carry the gas to a Dade County terminus at Cutler, south of Miami, with 682 miles of lateral spur lines running off the main stem to supply customers in every major Florida market...
...Hungarian relief concert in London, hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and five local cats out-blasted the whole blasted Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which sought to play under the hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand as a guest artist to fill out, not ruin, the Philharmonic, loped off stage while a flustered impresario temporarily confiscated his trumpet to prevent an all-night encore. But the hep types filling Royal Festival Hall screamed and stomped for more. (One of the most insistent: the rock-'n'-rolling...
...Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball cues. But sometimes he was vague. Several times, the baton flew from his small, pudgy hand (he picked up fresh ones from a supply on his music stand). It was a gallant try, but when it was over, one question remained: Why subject Joey, the orchestra and the audience to an experience that was not inspiring to any of them...
...WORTHY Baton Rouge...
...Captured by the British three weeks later, he was arraigned as a war criminal at Nürnberg. His sentence: ten years. At Spandau prison in West Berlin in July, 1947, he clicked his heels and handed over to the warders his diamond-studded grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep fit, read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership...