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Last week, bald, stocky Maestro Kostelanetz and wife, Met Coloratura Lily Pons, were returning to the U.S. from a European vacation. With guest-conducting, a full fall recording schedule and an estimated $100,000 annual royalties to look forward to, the mix master felt well content. "I am fortunate," he said, "to have lived at a time when radio and records have made it possible for more people to hear more music than has been heard since the beginning of time...
...Born. To Maestro Leopold Stokowski, 68, and Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 26, his third wife (he is her second husband): their first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Weight...
...many of the wrong people ("dusty figures from Potsdam's attic") had been present. "We hope," said the paper, "that in future those parts of the population will be invited that belong there: the working people who sincerely honor and understand the life and works of our great maestro...
Last week, after heart-warming welcomes up the Pacific Coast from Pasadena to Seattle, the little maestro took to the outdoors. At Sun Valley, he lolled on the grass, watched his grandson, Yale Sophomore Walfredo Toscanini, play tennis, then sat himself in a ski-lift chair for a trip part way up 9,200-ft. Baldy Mountain. Was he scared? Not a bit, scoffed Toscanini. He had been a mountain climber in his youth-which was a good 60 years ago. Up & down the lift, he gaily applauded members of his orchestra as they passed, crying "Bellissimo," with the enthusiasm...
...waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well, a little, but it was good...