Word: danzig
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...only one metropolitan paper ever discovered this. The height of the general misinformation occurred in the usually conscientious and well-informed New York Times. Its post-game report under the by-line of Allison Danzig took his ignorance out on the Harvard swimmers. Danzig said they failed when actually no losing team has ever done so well...
...whole weight of Jewish custom was against it. Although women are movingly praised in Jewish scripture, they have always occupied an inferior position in the Jewish religious structure as ";a nation unto themselves." Born in Cavalla, Greece, of Russian parents, Mrs. Robbins moved with her family to Danzig in 1928 when she was only five, soon became the only girl in the all-boy choir at the synagogue there. Although she took no formal music training, she loved to listen to the cantors sing, learned all the principal chants by heart...
...winter of 1939 the German SS set fire to the Danzig synagogue during a service. Young Betty escaped, later fled with her parents to Australia, where she continued her Hebrew studies. There she also met her future husband, then a corporal in the U.S. Medical Corps...
...good male tennis player beat a topnotch female tennis player? This week the world's best woman player gave New York Times Sportswriter Allison Danzig a decidedly nonfeminist answer. Said U.S. and Wimbledon Champion Maureen Connolly: "He would simply annihilate her. I know. I was annihilated myself yesterday by a pro no one has ever heard of." Added Little Mo, the hardest hitter in the ladies' division: "Men hit so much harder and run so much faster than women that we don't have a ghost of a chance against them . . . They are so much stronger...
Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, 39, was orphaned when his parents, fleeing the revolution, both died in Danzig. The family nurse took him to Brussels, and a family friend offered to pay for his education. De Staël studied with an art teacher who sent him on bicycle trips all over western Europe, where he practiced by copying masterpieces in museums. His enthusiasm waxed with his skill. But he had no popular success at first, often went hungry. During World War II, he served in the Foreign Legion, went straight back to his Paris studio afterwards. Then...