Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dangerous Step. Science of Oct. 5, 1945 printed an article by Biologist Anton R. Zhebrak which looked (to Americans) like an able defense of the freedom of Soviet science. The Soviet Union, said Zhebrak, has many good scientists and allows them professional liberty. Her geneticists, particularly, are doing excellent work...
...being overguarded (70 men on the regular White House Detail, hundreds when he went on speaking tours). The one & only serious attempt at assassination, despite some 5,000 threatening letters a month, was the Miami shooting in 1933 which resulted in the death of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak...
...strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled it. Mrs. Chase and courtly Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, successor to Nast, have admitted articles to their pages, but no fiction. "It shows a lack of sustained thinking," Pat thinks...
Died. General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. 74, peasant-born onetime Imperial Russian Army officer, who in 1919 led his White troops in a drive through southern Russia to near victory over the Reds; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors." Anton Kaufmann was less resigned. Snapping the cords about his wrists as he plunged through the trap, he grasped the rope above his head. Kicking & squirming, he fought for 18 minutes before he died...