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...Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation the players remembered that Toscanini, then 19, seemed to know everything by heart. He had no dress coat. But the players hustled him into one, thrust a baton into his hand and boosted him on the conductor's stand. Without glancing at the score he gave such a flawless At da that he stayed on as conductor for the rest of the season. The players said then that he had memorized the scores because...
...Rinconada, Spain, what sounded like a low-flying plane sent Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...laboratory at Lynn three electrical engineers, two nurses and Dr. Foster stood by while swarthy, black-mustached Dr. Michou stretched himself out on a big oak table. Dr. Foster made two inch-deep incisions. Dr. Michou hoisted up his buttocks. The engineers thrust a small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried...
Meat packers throughout the land last week bridled angrily at a fresh thrust from their archfoe, Speaker of the House Rainey...
...Oxenham, who lost his sight in the War, learned to play golf two years ago when a doctor friend thrust a club into his hands, told him what to do. He made that first hole in bogey. Now he plays twice a week, takes his chauffeur as caddie. He explains...