Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Untouchables. And there was widespread fear, both at home and abroad, that Britain's something would not only be late but far from enough. A fortnight ago, when Winston Churchill in his Cabinet shuffle failed to remove his Old Harrovian friend, crustily conservative Secretary of State for India Leopold Stennett Amery, many took it as a bad sign for India's political hopes...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
...sounded merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...
...King Leopold III of the Belgians his bride of last September has borne a son, according to the London News Chronicle. The boy, reported born Dec. 30, was named Philip, Prince de Rethy. The Belgian throne will never be his by succession, for when Leopold wed the striking Marie-Lelia Baels, a commoner, last Sept. 11 he renounced such a right for any children by that marriage...
...they fired, but their funds were frozen, they were barred from company premises and forbidden to communicate with their ex-employes. The five: Rudolph Hutz, $80,000-a-year vice president & director;Vice Presidents Hans Aickelin and William vom Rath; F. W. von Meister, manager of the Ozalid division; Leopold Eckler, acting manager of Agfa Ansco. Four worked at one time for I. G. Farben (German Dye Trust); all personified, said Treasury men, Aniline's German origins and ambiguous control...