Word: israels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, 59, able lawyer and political dilettante who spent a lifetime in and out of left-wing groups, as a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (1946) clamored vociferously for the creation of Israel, blasted the Truman State Department in a book (Behind the Silken Curtain) for what he considered its vacillation over Palestine; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte...
Have just read your impressive write-up on MGM's great epic Ben-Hur [Nov. 30], but could not help wondering why no mention was made of Miss Haya Harareet, Israel's talented up-and-coming star, who has made her first appearance in a U.S.-made film as Esther in that movie...
Stereo. In Haifa, Israel, annoyed by a howling dog, Hi-Fi Fancier Leon Shaudinischky made an hour-long recording of the dog's bark, played it back at full volume, scared the dog away for good...
...play some 80 concerts by the end of April, then pack his Guarneri and head for his second tour of Russia (six weeks) before hitting the European summer festival circuit. Last week Stern was not in the least bothered at having to play three concertos on one program. In Israel, he recalls, he once played two concertos at a 5 p.m. concert, another three at 9 p.m. Says he, "I'm like the girls...
Rabbi Wanted. The 21,000 Bene Israelites, most of them in the Bombay area, are the largest single group in India's small (25,400) Jewish community. There are 28 Bene Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that...