Word: stokowskied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before the concert was scheduled to begin in Birmingham, England, a local news photographer snapped an unauthorized shot of hot-tempered, camera-shy Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who blinked in anger and issued an ultimatum: hand over the film or there will be no concert. The photographer surrendered, waited patiently, caught the maestro unexpectedly for the second time after the concert was finished...
Nine new members of Phi Beta Kappa were initiated at the meeting. Sadja Stokowski '51, a member since last year received commendation for having the highest four-year academic grades in her class...
...investigating a murder. The thin body of 20-year-old Margaret Senteney, bruised and garroted, lay sprawled face upward in the sagebrush, when Undersheriff John Ross and Highway Patrolman Leonard Kirkes got to the scene one day in August 1942. The place was a desolate corner of Maestro Leopold Stokowski's rambling foothill estate, high above Margaret's home town of Carpinteria on the Southern California coast. The only clues were a couple of big footprints and a tire track -and despite Undersheriff Ross's warnings, Patrolman Kirkes managed to trample all over them...
Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...
...powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...