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...Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...
...Born. To Leopold Godowsky Jr., 44, co-inventor of Kodachrome color film and son of the late famed pianist-composer; and Frances Gershwin Godowsky, 37, sister of the late Composer George Gershwin: twin daughters, their third and fourth children; in Manhattan. Names: Georga (after her uncle) and Nayna. Weights...
...Belgian crisis was not merely Belgian. The problems of the little kingdom, whose King Leopold III is a German prisoner, seemed like a desperate distillation of the problems of much of liberated Europe. Behind these problems lay hunger (the physical absence of sufficient food), cold (the physical absence of fuel in one of Europe's bitterest winters), the war-induced collapse of the economic system (which was unable to produce vitally needed consumers' goods or to give jobs to people who vitally needed them...
...little man who tries sadly to preserve himself and his reason against a practically worldwide onslaught. Grim psychiatrists, gadgets that "whir and whine and whiz," erratic servants, domineering women, unfriendly dogs, ghosts, foreigners -all are in league to crush the Thurber Male. This harried biped, like Joyce's Leopold Bloom or Mann's Hans Castorp, represents 20th-century Man. To Thurber's devotees, who rate him the greatest U.S. humorist since Mark Twain, his blankly exaggerated reports of their own qualms and misadventures are recognizable and (since nobody considers himself quite as badly off as a Thurber...
...Leopold Stokowski, who does things in the grandiose manner, signed a three-year contract to direct the Hollywood Bowl's musical activities and conduct its summer concerts. Said starry-eyed Stokowski: "The poetic setting of the Bowl under the stars . . . the poetry of the night and the stars go together. I love to conduct . . . where so many people can enjoy music in the open air beneath the stars...