Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Music: Toscaninnies
Ten years ago, the musical world was already swooning in the aisles over the fire-and-ice perfection of Arturo Toscanini's interpretations. Since then the little white-haired Maestro has become the darling of millions who couldn't tell a fugue from a flugelhorn. Today, as chief of NBC's shiny new symphony, 72-year-old Arturo Toscanini is far & away the biggest lion in the U. S. musical zoo.
To his weekly broadcasts in Radio City's scientifically sound-deadened Studio 8-H pushes an audience of dowagers, politicians and musical who's who that tops the Metropolitan's opening nighters for mink and...
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