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...Leopold's Score...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In the doghouse of official Soviet displeasure since 1936, when Joseph Stalin cracked down on modernistic music (TIME, Feb. 24, 1936), 33-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich climbed out again by writing this symphony in honor of the October Revolution's 20th anniversary (1937). The symphony, finest work to date by Soviet Russia's No. 1 TIME, January 8, 1940 composer, shows Joe Stalin to have been a sound music critic. In it, Composer Shostakovich leaves all clattering tricks behind, works fine melodies up into surging climaxes...
Many a doting parent writes down for safekeeping his child's first baby words. But Dr. Werner F. Leopold, a professor at Northwestern University, outdid most parents. He made a daily record of his child's words for seven years. Last week he published part of this record as scientific research...
...Leopold is a professor of German and a linguistics expert. When his first daughter, Hildegard, was born nine years ago, Professor Leopold immediately started a serious study of her language development. He kept a diary, put down every sound his baby uttered. (Eventually, Hildegard, seeing her father constantly busy with a pencil, asked: "What are you writing?" He replied: "I am taking notes for my work," kept his secret.) Dr. Leopold gave his experiment an unusual twist by teaching Hildegard two languages: from birth he talked to her only in German, his wife only in English...
...Leopold believes that his findings are highly significant, that they upset some old notions. Volume I of his study, published last week, covers Hildegard's development to the age of two. Highlights...