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...second day observers got a closer look of genius at work. As the orchestra hushed to a quiet, the old man came onstage, baby-pink and robust. He was chewing his favorite cherry pastilles. Titian-haired Soprano Nelli was all set for her first solo, Ritorna Vincitor!, from Aïda. The maestro conducted vigorously. Whispered a technician in the control booth: "What a man! Look at that beat." With the run-through and actual recording completed, the playback started. Toscanini listened intently, poring over the score, at times reconducting the music. In his high-collared rehearsal jacket, he looked...
...bring the dying art of salesmanship back to its robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced...
...fire, vigor and precision for which he is famous. But at the final rehearsal he was upset, and walked out on the orchestra. At the concert-excerpts from his beloved Wagner operas-Toscanini's mind seemed to be far away. There were passages when his beat was robust as of old. There were other times when he almost stopped conducting, seeming to stand aside, listening to the music. Then the incredible happened: during the Bacchanal from Tannhäuser, the superb orchestra actually became confused. Alert NBC engineers cut the broadcast off the air with an announcement about "operational...
After his long siege of illness, Anthony Eden at 56 is feeling robust again and eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
There are some genuine and valuable manifestations of House spirit and friendship like the annual Christmas Dinner and House Play; among the less valuable, albeit more robust, manifestations are the occasional beer-busts. Acting as a counter-balance is the spirit of isolation or sheer indifference which prevails among some House members. The opposition of the two spirits produces a tension which is needed and prevents a conformity which is deadening...