Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first: Leopold Stokowski's applecheeked All American Youth Orchestra, which last summer toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, then temporarily disbanded...
...Symphony, most costly and prestigious orchestra of the U.S. air waves, last week got a successor to "The Old Man1' -Arturo Toscanini-who for four seasons had larruped great music out of it. The successor, as had been rumored (TIME, May 26), is petulant, platinum-blond Leopold Stokowski, also an old hand at symphonic larruping. But Stokowski is signed for only eight of the season's 28 NBC concerts. The rest will probably be conducted by guests chosen from the stick-wavers, good and indifferent, who have spelled The Old Man in the past. This season the Symphony...
Next day King Leopold surrendered-"probably just like all the rest of us, a poor, wretched, terrified, bewildered human being, trying to act for the best." Mrs. Kennedy's husband, David, came down from London, "fagged and wretched." On the train there had been a man in a state of nervous collapse. "He had a perfectly green face and kept saying: 'This means we're done. We're finished. We've been licked. It's the end. We can't go on.' " At last a fat man in the corner said...
...Here is a message for our correspondent Leopold Vindictive...
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