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Conductor Karl Boehm of the touring Vienna State Opera was hot, tired and in no mood to audition the unknown young American bass-baritone who waited for him. Nevertheless, after rehearsal on a June day in Brussels, he called for the young hopeful. In the audition he made what seemed last week to be the operatic find of the year...
...Julius Boehm, who taught the Austrian infantry skiing in the World War, is here as a refugee and conducting classes at Cummington, where there are some particularly beautiful mountain trails...
...these policies did not necessarily add up to a Fascist State, nor to making Laval quite the Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope...
...campaign funds of candidates for every office in Union Electric's territory from alderman to Governor of Missouri. Laun, reported Shelton, kept his list of bribees under a carpet in his office. On information supplied by SEC, Al Laun went to Leavenworth three months ago, and Frank Boehm, formerly executive vice president, is now on trial for perjury in Federal court. Since the SEC hearings began, Union Electric's Missouri tax assessments have been upped...
...these disclosures popped, North American, traditionally aloof from the management details of its subsidiaries, slowly decided that an investment-trust posture toward Union Electric would no longer suffice. Its then President James Francis Fogarty first replaced (but kept on salary) Union Electric Officers Egan ($58,000), Boehm ($41,000), and Laun ($16,800). Few months later, all three resigned and two other officers were demoted. Meanwhile, President Fogarty himself moved upstairs, and Ed Shea moved...