Music: Sunday Maestro

Sunday Maestro

One Sunday afternoon six years ago a pale young conductor stood in a Manhattan radio station, baton tensely raised, waiting for the hands of the clock to reach the dot of three. Columbia Broadcasting System was sending its first program over the air. Pale young Howard Barlow had been chosen to christen the newborn network which was so soon to become the potent rival of wealthy National Broadcasting Co. Musically as well as sentimentally the 3 p. m. hour on Sunday has come to mean much to C. B. S. New...

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