Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green-garbed German officer was abruptly firm: the Fuhrer would not tolerate delay. For the last time handsome, sad-eyed Leopold III looked down from his Laeken palace-prison on swans nodding whitely in a blue lake, on the withering bloom of purple rhododendrons beneath stately beeches. Stiffly he turned, walked out to a waiting car, climbed in beside his commoner second wife (to whom he had given the title Princess de Réthy). As helpless as any of the 600,000 Belgians who had preceded him, the King of the Belgians was deported to Germany...
...sooner had Leopold Stokowski patched up his squabble with the musicians and music lovers of Mexico City (TIME, June 5) than the National Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini...
Detur Prize books for excellence in studies to Bruce H. Allen '46, Herbert S. Allen, Jr. '45, Edward B. Burke '46, Bille C. Carlson '45, Lincoln D. Clark '46, Fred N. Fishman '46, Norman Geschwind '46, Edward S. Goldman '46, Robert A. Green '46, Wayland C. Griffith '46, Leopold H. Haimson...
...When Leopold Stokowski is not making curious things happen, they are often being made to happen to him. Last week the picturesque maestro's Mexican tour continued in an ornate fuss & feathers of insult and apology. He had already scared the wits out of Oaxaca with a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with offstage sound effects of cannonading (TIME, May 29). Last week it was something else...
...Germany's Lieut. Leopold Munster, who dove into an Allied bomber when his ammunition ran out, was killed. Berlin claimed this as his 95th victory...