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At SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60ยข cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's...
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