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...trim-looking little Armenian, Mikoyan is an exception to the run of humorless Bolsheviks. He is happy-go-lucky, and he can tell a story. He likes to hum a tune, dance, drink. (He promised the Soviet people he would produce a good beer...
...Slaughter. Mikoyan was born in 1895, and is who's-who'd in the approved Soviet manner as the son of a worker. Like Stalin he once studied for the priesthood. He graduated in 1915 from the Armenian Religious Seminary (Nestorian Catholic) at Tiflis, switched the same year to the Bolshevik Party...
...Francisco's famed Armenian restaurateur, George Mardikian, complained that New England's cooks did not take proper advantage of Atlantic sea. food; he gave them 2% more years to achieve a masterpiece, or he would come east and achieve it himself...
...belles to mix cosmetics, and the bronze cat (with the remains of the sacred original coffined inside)-also take up little room. Nonetheless, the National was sporting (for an indefinite period) the most important private collection of Egyptian art in the world-on loan from the art collection of Armenian Millionaire Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian...
...best known to Americans for the operations in Near Eastern oil (TIME, Nov. 15) which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...