Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news broke that escaped Russian flier Anatoly Barsov was returning to the Soviet Union, Reporter Anatole Visson, of our Washington bureau, headed for the hotel where Barsov had stayed during his last days in the U.S. Visson, who was born in Russia and speaks five other languages besides Russian, found two notebooks among Barsov's effects. Visson translated the diary that night, gaining a clean newsbeat for TIME, then turned the notebooks over to the State Department...
...signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics...
...point, he swore he "could not remember" where his only child was born in 1942, later on produced glib details of his own life in kindergarten, nearly 40 years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling...
Oriental Slave Dance. The life dedicated to the task of being a paragon of fashion for American women began 38 years ago, far from the U.S. and far from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern-stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still...
...Greenfield thought he could do more-as he had with a dozen other projects. As a real-estate salesman, Russian-born Al Greenfield was selling $60 million worth of property a year by the time he was 26. Later he built Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel, soon had a finger in most local financial pies. He was worth $15 million and dominated Philadelphia's huge Bankers Trust Co. when the 1930 crash wiped...