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...Will Saltonstall Landis on top of Curley like a Bushnell of Wood," was the first question I asked the conductor on the subway last night. "The Democratic party," the conductor answered as he took my dime, "will poll a heavy vote in South Carolina, Georgie, Florida, Alabama, and Texas. The situation is not clear in some other states...
...late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...
...Friends of Music concluded their second successful season without benefit of Park Avenue patronage, Ira Hirschmann announced, for the season of 1938-39, that the usual array of chamber-music events would be augmented by 1) a brand-new, 36-man chamber orchestra, and 2) a conductor: Fritz Stiedry of Vienna's Volksoper and Leningrad's Philharmonic...
Last week the New Friends' new orchestra and new conductor made their opening bow to Manhattan audiences. The new orchestra was notable for its youth (85% of its players are under 25) and for its five women instrumentalists. A packed house attended the opening, found the youthful orchestra well-stocked, found Conductor Stiedry something to shout about...
...drugstore cowboy but a strapping 210-pounder born only 31 years ago on a Dakota County farm, Harold Stassen worked his way through the University of Minnesota Law School, for three years as a Pullman conductor. Aged 23, he was elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson...