Word: toscanini
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Using the same pressing style of play Army exploited in beating the Crimson, Yale effectively smothered Harvard's short passing attack. Left wing Wally Toscanini played brilliantly for the visitors, scoring their second and third goals as his team clinched the New England League championship...
From then on, it was Toscanini's show. His first goal came in the late 50 seconds of the third period when he beat two Harvard defenders and sneaked one through near the left goal post. In the last quarter Toscanini scored again on one of the most beautiful foals of the season...
...cerise plush Studio 8-H (now being converted into a TV theater) into Carnegie Hall. He had not objected too much: Carnegie is acoustically superior to Studio 8-H. But then NBC suggested a further move, to the unfamiliar Manhattan Center Studio. A final crowning blow to Toscanini, the story went, was the decision to shift his time to 10 o'clock (E.S.T.) Monday nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded programs as the Telephone Hour, Toscanini, said Variety, "had all he could...
...Toscanini's troubles merely spotlighted a trend that has been in the making for a long time. Its budgets severely cramped by television's voracious demands, big radio is giving serious music and musicians the brushoff...
Last week the trade was rocking with a different story. What was really keeping 83-year-old Arturo Toscanini from the podium was not the ailing knee, blared Variety in Page One headlines, but a "shove-around...