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Vigor, Strength & Anger. The son of Jewish emigrants who had fled czarist Russia, Goldberg grew up in poverty: his father used a wagon drawn by a blind horse to cart produce. Arthur went to Northwestern University Law School, where in 1930 he got a doctorate in jurisprudence and ranked No. 1 in his class. He got into the rugged world of labor law, in 1948 became general counsel for the C.I.O. and the United Steelworkers, helped plan the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. On Capitol Hill he met John Kennedy; they became good friends. Later Goldberg became one of Kennedy...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel gives body to a spirited hit musical derived from Sholom Aleichem's tale of Tevye and his five daughters, their joys and troubles in a czarist Russian village...
Died. Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff, 66, one of the art world's most engaging innovators and TIME cover artist (see Publisher's Letter); of a heart attack; in Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris...
Unlike Chekhov's Ward 6 in the clas sic of that name, from which Tarsis drew his title and which was an attack on the abysmal physical conditions in Czarist asylums. Ward 7 seemed almost heaven to some of the inmates by comparison with the wretchedness of Russian life outside. "Personally I'm very happy," explained one of them to Almazov: "I'm fed. I'm clothed. Nobody preaches Communism at me. Do you realize? No propaganda, and you can say what you like! Where else can you do that...
Mounted police moved in to signal that the demonstration was over. They were astride dapple-grey horses, the same stalwart breed that the Cossacks had used to run down street mobs with nagaika and saber in czarist days. 'Suddenly the scene dissolved into chaos, and photos taken by Western journalists provided a dramatic record of the astounding proceedings. This was. after all, the first time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks...