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World-famous, world-visited are the marvelous glass flowers in Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Each year 250,000 people Oh & Ah at the 847 unique and perfect models which a father and son, Bohemians Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, fashioned during half a century. Much has been made of their "secret." Beyond patient observation, incredible sensitiveness of touch and infinite pains, they had none...
...Leopold Blaschka shipped his first Cowers to Harvard in 1886, as an aid to teaching botany. Thereafter Harvard took the Blaschkas' entire output. Leopold died in 1895, but Rudolph, working on alone, persevered until three years ago when, near 80 and his eyesight failing because of the work, he shipped 15 fruit models to Harvard, soon closed down his studio...
...Leopold Stokowski was quoted in noncommittal remark, but your reporter ignored the fact that in the same speech to the audiences of the Philadelphia Orchestra Mr. Stokowski affirmed that the Orchestra has never been in better musical condition and that credit for this should be given to Mr. Ormandy...
Adolescents who are yanked off to symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...
...Leopold, Master's Lodgings, (Use Study entrance as directed above): Wed., 11-1 and 4-6 o'clock; Thurs...