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...Baudouin announced that he would snub the funeral of Britain's King George VI, and would send his younger brother, Prince Albert, to London in his stead. Why? Well, Baudouin is his father's son, and his memory still smarts at the British attitude towards his father Leopold over Belgium's surrender to Germany...
Most of Cott's bombs have produced more whistle than blast. Among them (on radio): a weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only...
Born. To Conductor Leopold Stokowski, 64, and Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 27, his third wife: their second child (his fifth), second son; in Manhattan. Weight...
...Leopold Ullstein, a Jewish paper dealer, had started the company in 1877 when he bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski, 69, postponed a Minneapolis concert, took up a vigil at the Manhattan bedside of wife Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 27, to await the arrival of their second child...