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...judges: Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Abram Chasins, Nadia Rei-senberg, Alexander Schneider, Lillian Fuchs, Leopold Mannes, Arthur Judson, Eugene Istomin. -Born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, she changed her name to cater to the U.S. predilection for foreign musical artists. From 1911, until her divorce in 1923, she also answered to the name of Mrs. Leopold Stokowski...
Reigning Cats & Dogs. In St. Louis County, Mo., State Weight Inspector Arthur J. Schneider stopped a truck, ordered the driver to rearrange his freight to take excess weight off the rear axle, sympathetically changed his mind when the driver told him the cargo was eight leopards, a cheetah, eight dogs and a panther...
Died. Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Sir John Nelson Boothman, 56, winner of the last Schneider Trophy air race (in 1931) by flying at 340.08 m.p.h. (then a record speed) in a Supermarine 56B, director during World War II of photo-reconnaissance for the RAF Coastal Command; in Stanmore, England...
Author Barr's hero is one Professor Henry Schneider, cynical head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
...talk, of course, was witty and waspish, pithy and pulverizing, often profound; but "the slovenly particularities" of the man were never forgotten by Directors Alan Schneider and Seymour Robbie, or by Makeup Man Bob O'Bradovich, who helped make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated...