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After a concert in Frankfurt, Maestro Leopold Stokowski, guest conductor of the symphony orchestra that ploys under the aegis of the Hessian radio station in West Germany, put on no airs as he graciously received the applause of his listeners. Main reason for his refraining from his customary theatricality: white-maned Conductor Stokowski, 73, also renowned as the estranged husband of Actress-Painter-Poetess Millionheiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, had banned all pictures of the concert, was unaware that a camera had fixed its evil eye upon...
...announced that its September list will include a "tender, searching" volume titled Love Poems. The poetess: Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, 31, whose first published work follows her renown as amateur artist, professional actress (The Time of Your Life-TIME, Jan. 31), and the estranged wife of mellowing (73) Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Explaining the poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria herself offered...
...Miami, Conductor Leopold Stokowski blew a fuse when he heard himself described over the air as being 74 years of age and the son of an Irish mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia...
...Real names: Boston Symphony (Kousse-vitzky), Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski), Cincinnati Symphony (Goosens...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...