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...Singers Roberta Peters and Blanche The-bom and Conductor Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Soviet Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan (who are in the U.S. now), plus the Bolshoi Theater Ballet and other stellar attractions...
...exorcism. With the true Joycean alchemy, he took truths that were ugly, sordid and violent and composed a memoir that is grave and serene. Yet he did not wholly escape his brother. He died in 1955, on June 16-Bloomsday, i.e., the day in the life of Leopold Bloom chronicled in Ulysses. It was a day Stanislaus himself annually celebrated with a party...
Benign and serene on a telenquiry program in Chicago, white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who admits to 70, disclosed that baton-waving gives him both uplift and insomnia: "It's a mystery to me, but one receives enormously something back from the music. It makes me feel strong. After a concert I hear the music all night. I can't sleep that night. All night I hear the music, and I hear the bassoons and the oboes and the different instruments." His view of applause for a performance? "What would you suggest as an alternative to applause? Supposing...
PENN-TEXAS CORP. will slice its sales volume almost 50% by shucking subsidiaries to raise cash for its bills. Penn-Texas sold Hallicrafters Co. (which brought in $30 million yearly in sales) and Industrial Brownhoist Corp. (sales: $14 million). Now Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein is dickering to sell its 51% interest in Tex-Penn Oil & Gas Corp., Liberty Aircraft Products Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel...
Financier Leopold D. Silberstein, who won only an active ulcer in his attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co. last May, bad reason for more pain. To help pay off the huge debts contracted in the proxy fight, his Penn-Texas Corp. last week was forced to 1) omit a quarterly dividend on preferred stock, 2) sell a major subsidiary, Industrial Brownhoist Corp. of Bay City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries...