Arri Bachrach wrote:

>I remember as a very young kid seeing the NY Phil being conducted by R.  He
>was considered a rather eccentric individual and among the stories I heard
>years later was that he carried a gun!!!!!

As Mae West said in one of her movies after a heavy clinch with a suitor:
"Are you feelin' a little nervous or are you packin' a rod?"

Rodzinski had a reputation, in America at least, for being disputatious,
but doesn't this story about him go back to his days in Poland right after
WW I?

John Dalmas
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