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Boss Petrillo also announced that one date which the Boston Symphony's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky had made for this winter would not be filled: conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, as one of eight quests. The Philharmonic is fully unionized, and Petrillo won't have it led by a man he considers a scab...
...drenched plateau, climbed 9,000 feet in the air, and finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor in the caboose bummed chewing tobacco from the engineer in his cab as the little train coiled back on itself on hairpin turns; of how buffalo charged the pint-sized engines ; of how the train rolled down the mountain so fast it reached Antonito ahead of the sound of its whistle...
...Antonito, Conductor Henry Willis, who had spent almost a quarter of a century on the run, climbed carefully down. No sentimentalist, Conductor Willis exclaimed, " I'm glad to get off that danged rattletrap...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
...tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo Roper, conductor of the FORTUNE Poll...