Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is Life? Selman Abraham Waksman, famed U.S. expert at stirring up civil war among the bugs, was born in 1888 in the little Ukrainian village of Priluka, go miles from Kiev. His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and young Selman was brought up almost entirely by his mother Fradia...
Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield...
...authority, I think I would say that Raymond Massey is giving the performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence...
Joza Vilfan, Yugoslavian delegate to the UN, will head the list of speakers. The remainder of the panel includes Aubrey Eban, Israeli delegate to the UN, Abraham Feller, LL.B. '28, director of the UN Legal department, and Chester Williams, former public liaison officer of the U.S. delegation...
...pictures hanging in the museum's pleasant galleries last week were proof that Mrs. Force's taste was catholic, usually sound. From George Luks's powerfully naturalistic study, The Wrestlers, dated 1905, to the stylized modernist canvases of Abraham Rattner and the obscure experiments of Baziotes and Gottlieb (see below), every excursion and detour of U.S. art was represented...