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Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
...independent Die Presse, which published the Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party in 1947 to negotiate a partnership. People's Party leaders-including, implied Gruber, ex-Chancellor Leopold Figl and the present Chancellor Julius Raab-agreed to force the militantly anti-Red Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then. He credited himself...
Twentieth Century Concert Hall (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...picture is superimposed on the studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids, his baseball trophies and the good life in Queens, N.Y. That done, Murrow switched to Conductor Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, who strolled about their Manhattan apartment explaining Gloria's paintings, flipping through a family photograph album, and showing off Stokowski's music room, which was cluttered with a collection of gongs (Gloria obligingly banged one). Although Murrow's intention to show...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski is driven by a double urge: to play contemporary music, and to get it heard by as many people as possible. After a quarter-century with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he resigned, formed his first-class All-American Youth Orchestra, and toured with it as far as South America. When that broke up because of the war, he spread himself around, guest-conducting in almost every city that had a good orchestra. Wherever he went he gathered new scores, played many of them, and catalogued all according to his own hieroglyphic filing system against the time when...