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Long after their ruckus with temperamental Artur Rodzinski (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947), the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra seemed unwilling to give full-conductor powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...
...ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under his own rules, however, he had to relinquish it to Osborne, who is 43. Osborne got the break that time, but he maintains that front line war coverage is basically a job for young reporters...
Glad Shouts. Last week in Germany, Congressman Chatham fell into an adventure which left even his oldest acquaintances breathing a little heavily. One night, as he was seated with a glass of something warming in a West Berlin nightclub, he was spotted by a Russian whom he had known in Washington during World War II. The two men greeted each other with glad shouts, talked for hours, finally went to the Russian's flat in East Berlin. How, asked the Russian, would the Congressman like to go for a drive in the morning? The Congressman would...
Your readers will be interested in what the Marquis Arturo della Scala, scion of one of Italy's oldest families and well-known lawyer, said to me in Rome last month . . .: ''If America wants to defend the liberty of Western Europe (and of the Western World), it can never do so by liberating Europe after a Russian occupation, but only by preventing it-by sending enough men and material...
...Attallah was put off by 6-in. practice shells from an English shore battery which kept plopping into the water ahead of him. Panagiotis Kamberos of Greece was disqualified when his trainers yanked him into the boat out of the jaws of a shark. "Papa" Eduard Mussche, 63, the oldest competitor, got lost in the Channel, had a mackerel tickle his stomach, finally sighted a boat and climbed...