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...Thursday Leopold Haimson '46, of Dunster House, and Ellis Kaplan '46, of Adams House will oppose the Haverford delegation. The hosts will debate the affirmative of the subject: "Resolved: That the United States should enter a post-war military alliance of which Russia is a member." Prominent members of the Faculty will act as judges and the Council expects to conduct a discussion from the floor...
Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz. Said he: "With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
...level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic, but too keenly perceptive to be pornographic, expositions of his theory of unanimism, experiments in telepathy, in Extra-Retinal Vision. He was also a lecturer in philosophy, and a one-man conspiracy with hush-hush dealings with people like King Leopold of Belgium, General Gamelin, Premier Daladier, Otto Abetz, then Chief of Nazi Propagandist in France-under the delusion (as ingenuously described by him in his Seven Mysteries of Europe) that they were Men of Good Will...
Spiritual father of the Houston statement was Beth Israel Trustee Leopold L. Meyer. But the congregation's young Rab bi Hyman Judah Schachtel, son of an Orthodox cantor, got a few hard raps. He had come to Houston from Manhattan's West End Synagogue only three weeks be fore the principles were adopted. But he stood by them. Said he: "If I had written the principles I would have made some changes. I endorse them in the main. . . . Our congregation does not oppose Zion ism. We simply do not participate...
Young Louis Leopold Mann despised all rabbis, thought there was not a real, red-blooded man among them. Then one day he read in the Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...