Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping.
But Mr. Stokowski obviously did not wish to make a speech. He bowed and retreated a dozen times, feeling, perhaps, that the eloquence of 15 years, during which he had...
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