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Stokowski led his 95 musicians with the surgically precise gestures of the hand, the long, scythelike sweeps of the arm that are as familiar to concertgoers as the white-maned profile.

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It measured an even 14 ft. from bill to scythelike tail, and weighed 810 Ibs.�a new world record, 30 Ibs. heavier than the previous record caught three years ago off San Juan, P.R.

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Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps to the Seine which ruined the German Seventh Army.

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