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...Fiftieth Anniversary Festival of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin this afternoon, when Sir George Henschel lifts his baton. Returning after fifty years to the post which he held in 1880, Sir George, who conducted the first program of the Orchestra, will again lead the musicians, this time in celebration of fifty years of musical life...
Knock number one opened up vistas no less vast than Rudy's microphone for putting Harvard in the public eye. From purely altruistic motives a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the University band. His name is Charles "Buddy" Rogers and his charming presence has endeared him in the hearts of movie fans the country over...
...Slade '32, this year's Harvard drum-major, should have become expert in the use of the baton as he has been practicing hurling the stick over a wire 21 feel high all this summer...
...last lap against big Tom Hampson. With this and the javelin-throw the British Empire might get a tie. The runners got set for the medley. Pete Bowen, best of U. S. quarter-milers, gained a slight advantage over Alex Wilson of Canada. He fumbled giving the baton to Eddie Tolan and ten yards were lost. But then George Simpson, Ohio State's "Buckeye Bullet," cut five yards off the lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed him in the backstretch, finished 70 yd. ahead. Then the crowd found out that...
Shaking his fists instead of a baton, teetering now on one long leg, now on the other, shaking his shaggy head, laboring mightily beneath the warm August moon, Composer-conducter Albert Coates of London one night last week conducted the world premiere of his new symphony, Launcelot, in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan...