Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later, Julius Leopold Otto, a clerk at the Consulate General in Manhattan, hanged himself in his suburban home. His wife said that he had been despondent...
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...
Archduke Otto of Austria was sued for an accounting of Habsburg family funds by his hard-up fifth cousin, Archduke Leopold. >> "Death Valley" Scotty was ordered to turn over 22½% of his mining claims to his old friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain...
Able-bodied Princess Juliana of The Netherlands subscribed her royal blood to Canada's pool for the war-wounded.... War-rationed King George and Queen Elizabeth made their "weekend roast" last all week....Leopold, King of the Belgians, completed his first year as a prisoner of war, under lax guard in a Laeken castle near Brussels.... Gravely ill at Doorn was Germany's ex-Kaiser Wilhelm....Carol of Rumania plumped bag and baggage down in Havana at last, told 60 reporters and cameramen he was "a simple refugee." .... Finally legit picaresque Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff...
Last week Leopold Stokowski-while setting out with an All-American Youth Orchestra to tour 45 cities in the U. S., Canada, Mexico-was mentioned as successor to international music's "Old Man" -Arturo Toscanini-at the baton of the great and costly NBC Symphony. The reason was that Maestro Toscanini, up to last week, had kept strictly mum about his future plans, and the NBC Symphony was badly in need of a great conductor...