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What's in a Name? In analyzing smells, Crocker sniffs for each basic component, like an orchestra conductor listening for specific instruments, then describes the total effect by numbers. Thus, the Crocker description of a rose is 6423, representing the relative strength of its fragrant, acid, burnt and caprylic components, respectively...
Faithful Follower. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Ray MacAtee, who swore she had never been a back-seat driver, became a conductor on a streetcar whose motorman was MacAtee...
...TIME'S thanks to Marshall Bartholomew, famed conductor of the Yale Glee Club since 1922, for an informed judgment on a debatable subject...
...hopes were based on several things. Boss Rodzinski had demanded, and got, absolute powers over the Philharmonic's artistic policies and personnel, free from all board-of-directors interference. Boss Rodzinski was also a conductor of long experience, particularly famed among musicians as an orchestra builder and repairer. He had, in 1933, developed the bush-league Cleveland Orchestra into one of the Middle West's two finest (the other: the Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York...
...Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony of Washington, D.C. (Hans Kindler); Pittsburgh (Fritz Reiner); Rochester (José Iturbi); Indianapolis (Fabien Sevitzky). Of the 18 major-league orchestras only one looked like a war casualty: the Kansas City Philharmonic had lost its conductor, Karl Krueger, to Detroit and had as yet no plans...