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Unmasked. In York, Pa., a lone masked thief waited impatiently for bar-owner Isaac Hulshart to hand over the contents of the cash register, suddenly whipped off his mask, dropped his gun and fled, crying: "You take these. I'm too nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham's patience had reached the breaking point. For the fourth time in five days he summoned 62-year-old Isaac Ben Zvi, acting head of the Jewish Agency. In the thickly carpeted lounge of Government House on the Hill of Evil Counsel, Cunningham gave the bespectacled Jewish leader a frank warning that the British troops might be hard to control. The Jewish Agency would have to take positive action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: No Refuge | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Anti-Clerical. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Isaac Bobst fought to win a divorce, complained that his wife coughed during church services, made faces, thumbed her nose at him when he was in the pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...known partly because it was painted behind the Iron Curtain, partly because it was rarely noteworthy. Obviously Stalin may not know much about art, but he knows very definitely what he doesn't like. Stalin goes for the stiffly illustrational sort of painting that made the late Academician Isaac Brodsky a Kremlin favorite. Among Brodsky's best tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting behind the Curtain | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Died. Rabbi Isaac Landman, 65, Russian-born president-elect of the powerful Synagogue Council of America,* onetime editor of the American Hebrew, editor in chief of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, outspoken non-Zionist; of a heart attack; in Starlake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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