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...addition to this, Leopold Stokowski has been highly criticized by the musical world for his expansion of Bach chamber works to the facilities of a Wagnerian orchestra. When Koussevitzky follows, the same criticism must be applied to him; when he allows his large string section to drown out the Brandenburg soloists, he is clearly guilty of a breach in taste...
Sadja Stokowski, 15, finally trailed Father Leopold into print with a picture taken at a yachting party at Palm Beach (see cut). The maestro's second daughter (by Wife No. 2), she threatened to out-glamor Glamor Girl Gloria, Wife...
Immediately after his election President Renner stepped over to Vienna's Presidential Building to swear in his successor as Chancellor, Leopold Figl, head of the Volkspartei. He also swore in the Figl Cabinet-as amended...
When his time came to die for treason, John Amery, 33, rose and shaved himself carefully. The night before, he had taken leave of his parents. Leopold S. Amery, once Secretary of State for India, knew that no power on earth could save the life of his ne'er-do-well...
...smallest grain," and the intelligence officers "who are usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into a pond. She sympathetically followed Amery's career into the respected, conservative Cabinet member he became. Of his wayward elder son she wrote: "John Amery was not insane, he was not evil, but his character was like the kind of car that will...