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...Pittsburgh Symphony led the parade. Under the baton of William Steinberg, and with Violinist Isaac Stern as soloist, the up & coming Pittsburgh gave a high-spirited performance featuring Gustav Mahler's First Symphony and Modernist Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto. Listeners and critics were especially impressed by the orchestra's brilliance and enthusiasm...
...paced his team to its 39th straight victory this season. Winding up with an intercollegiate record of 1,954 points, the skinny freshman, who just got his delayed high-school diploma a month ago, announced: "Now I'm taking off to hit the books." ¶In Baton Rouge, with a splendid 13-under-par 275, Sammy Snead, back on the tournament trail, whipped the field by three strokes for the $10,000 Baton Rouge Open...
...processes which would, supposedly, make the existing plants obsolete. Goodrich announced a process that could make rubber 50 times as fast as existing plants. Goodyear announced it was perfecting a new synthetic which might last the life of an automobile. Eight smaller tiremakers, operating as the Copolymer Corp. at Baton Rouge, were reported to have a rubber tire that would last 75,000 miles...
...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...
...Lenora Lafayette of Baton Rouge, La., the role of the dusky Aïda was the chance of a lifetime. The daughter of a bricklayer who worked his way up to manager of a contracting company, Lenora made up her mind at 17 to be a singer. With her father backing her to the limit, she went to Tennessee's Fisk University, then to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Three years ago she won a traveling scholarship to Europe. She had mastered the leads in Butterfly...