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...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inquisition | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Edinburgh Festival, three famed fiddlers were unable to decide who should take which part in Vivaldi's Concerto for Three Violins last week, ended up by drawing lots. Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin drew first and third. The second part went to Italy's Gioconda de Vito, 46, all but unknown in the U.S. but usually called Europe's No. 1 woman violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Europe's Finest | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knick Knackatory | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Administrative Assistant to the President, I. (for Isaac) Jack Martin, 45, an Ohio lawyer who for nine years was secretary and administrative assistant to the late Senator Robert A. Taft. His assignment: to help maintain good relations between the White House and Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Appointments | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Isaac Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plenty of Problems | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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