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...default (see above) and with Belgium once more the anvil on which Britain and France must pound out their fears and hatred, Foreign Minister Spaak prepared to report to his chief, Premier Hubert Pierlot; to the Cabinet, which had been in session since 1 a.m.; and to grave young Leopold III, King of the Belgians, who that morning proclaimed himself, like his father before him, the active Commander in Chief of his armed forces, Belgium's second war king in 26 years...
Blonde, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 18, daughter of famed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski, announced her plan to enter summer stock, become a great actress. Said she: "You've got to do something in life, you can't just sit around...
Last week at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Bell engineers gave an invitation performance of their stereophonic recordings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted and enhanced by silver-maned Leopold Stokowski. After listening to the thunderings and whisperings, Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff was inclined to doubt the musical worth of the recordings. Said he: "Too much enhancing; too much Stokowski...
...August 1703, "by the most gracious privilege of His Imperial Roman Majesty," a Viennese printer, one Johann Baptist Schönwetter (John Baptist Lovelyweather), started a court paper called Diarium. Vienna was capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Leopold I was Emperor. Said Printer Schönwetter of his paper: "It contains everything notable which occurs from day to day in this town of Vienna, as well as in other places all over the world...
...Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work has been done to develop Negro music to fill its rightful place as an indigenous art in this country. William Dawson and William Grant Still, whose symphonic works have been sponsored (perhaps unfortunately) by the pride of Philadelphia. Leopold Stokowski, are among the most important names associated with this movement...