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Spare a thought today for Dr. Leonhard Prinz. I know that you won't have heard of him. But if you're a baby-boomer, you probably knew someone just like him as you grew up in the '60s. Dr. Prinz was the music teacher at my elder brother's school. A booming, opinionated Austrian with mid-European charm, he was a frequent guest at my parents' dinner table in the '60s, where he would hold forth on the merits of Mozart and the contributions of Chopin...
...most prescient words about the Beatles were written some 36 years ago by their legendary publicist, the late Derek Taylor. At the precise time when the executives of United Artists and Dr. Leonhard Prinz were convinced that the Beatles were a passing fad, he wrote the liner notes to their 1964 U.K. album "Beatles For Sale" and actually referred to the year 2000, an impossibly futuristic date to envisage in the mid-'60s. Taylor speculated about a "radio-active cigar-smoking child picnicking on Saturn" asking us to explain the Beatles. Taylor recommended playing them the album. And he explained...
...those is his countryman Daniel Leonhard, 27, who bested Schumann for the German championship in August. "Sydney will be tough," says Schumann. And after Sydney, will he be ready to give up the pressure? He notes only that "Ragnar Skanaker from Sweden won bronze in Barcelona." Skanaker was 58, so Schumann may have quite a few more Olympics in his sights...
...event had its delights, like the wooden shoes of the little Dutch girls echoing their clomps in the speed skaters' Oval. On Mount Allan, where Zurbriggen and Swiss Teammate Peter Muller drew most of the early glare, a softer scene involved the sport's former custodians, the Austrians. Leonhard Stock, 29, the fifth-stringer who replaced fabled Franz Klammer in 1980, then made it worse by winning the downhill gold, finished an unexpected fourth last week and was finally embraced. Two days later, when Zurbriggen found a gate between his skis in the combined downhill-slalom, it was an Austrian...
...chief. Had he outlived Brezhnev, Suslov was expected to use his formidable authority as senior Politburo member to ensure an orderly transfer of power. The leading contenders for Brezhnev's job now include Politburo Stalwarts Andrei Kirilenko, 75, and Konstantin Chernenko, 70. According to Yale University Kremlinologist Wolfgang Leonhard, no current Soviet leader except Brezhnev comes "anywhere near Suslov in influence, stature, administrative skill and statesmanship...