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Divorced. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 68, lisping, giggling stage and TV comic and father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; by Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 50; after 8½ years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
...small Manhattan apartment where the Stokowskis first set up housekeeping, Leopold busied himself with his music while Gloria flitted happily from one enthusiasm to another. She tried her hand now at painting, now at poetry, now at modeling and even philanthropy, but always kept her own concerns second to those of the maestro. For a while, the care of her two sons, Stanislaus and Christopher, occupied most of her time...
Always Hopeful. About two years ago, Gloria's urge to stand in the spotlight on her own began to get the best of her-and Leopold as well. Last year, having tried a one-man show of her paintings without conspicuous success, she took a fling at acting in summer stock. Stokowski, who failed to attend her premiere, was notably noncommittal. "I am always hopeful." he said, "for the development of new talent." But last month, as Gloria's New York debut with Franchot Tone in a minor role in The Time of Your Life at the City...