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...Manhattan, it was announced that Dr. Selman A. Waksman, winner of the 1952 Nobel prize for medicine, had established a fellowship in microbiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Reho-voth, Israel in memory of the late President Chaim Weizmann...
Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
Twenty-four hours after Chaim Weizman, Israel's first President, was laid to rest, the enterprising editor of Israel's evening Maariv, in a signed editorial, proposed as his successor "the greatest Jew alive: Einstein...
...Motol was never too far off. Though Chaim Weizmann was fluent in seven languages, it was in Yiddish that he felt most at home. His humor too was peculiarly Yiddish; his stories the wry, comic-sad little folk tales that Jews tell to illustrate their precarious position in an oftentimes hostile world...
...Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...