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20th Century Concert Hall (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Leopold Stokowski...
Vice Squad (Levy and Gardner; United Artists) introduces the stream-of-consciousness technique at the precinct level. What James Joyce did in Ulysses for Leopold Bloom, this picture does for a detective captain. And though a day in the life of a flatfoot does not exactly provide many Joycean transfigurations-especially when the flatfoot is Edward G. Robinson -the film does leave the audience feeling like a thoroughly chewed cigar...
...better ways to fight African sleeping sickness were already being developed. Back in 1906, Belgium's King Leopold II had offered a $4,000 prize for a means of delivering his African subjects from "this terrible plague." Working not for the prize but for humanity, investigators at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research began an intensive search for a cure. Drs. Walter A. Jacobs and Michael Heidelberger juggled chemical groups into new molecular combinations. In 1915, they found tryparsamide. Physicians Wade H. Brown and Louise Pearce concluded from tests on animals that this was just what they...
Last week, after sleeping on it for about 30 years, the Belgian government honored Leopold's pledge-and upped the award to $20,000. In Brussels, Dr. Pearce, 68, received from King Baudouin the lion's share of $10,000 and was made an officer of the Royal Order of the Lion. To Drs. Jacobs and Heidelberger went $2,000 each and the Order of Leopold II; to Dr. Brown's estate, his posthumous $4,000; and to that of Britain's late Dr. H. W. Thomas, who helped to develop atoxyl, $2,000. Despite...
...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...