Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough Non-Slav. The laurels went to an obscure Armenian, Ivan Christoforo-vich Bagramian. Army files in Moscow held little but Bagramian's dry record; Army men knew little of this Armenian, save that he was the only non-Slav to command a front...
Tough Job. If Bagramian takes Vitebsk, he will rank with other Red greats: Konstantin Rokossovsky, now inching toward Vitebsk from the under side; Nikolai Vatutin, fighting in the Kiev bulge, 350 miles to the south; Stalin's pal, Ivan Konev, long stalemated in the Dnieper bend...
Headed by a summer hero, General Ivan Bagramyan, the First Baltic Army seemed strong enough for the twin job. German reports put it at: 14 infantry, one artillery, two cavalry divisions, with two complete tank corps. Still larger forces were apparently massed south of Vitebsk, under Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. Stalled for weeks by adverse weather and fierce German resistance, this Army was a tight spring that could uncoil at any moment...
...groupings, now partly fused by war: the Roman Catholic Croats; the hardy, heady, Orthodox Serbs; the minority Slovenes. The Partisans made Marshal Broz president of the Committee and chairman of a special Defense Committee. Next they chose a presidium and placed at its head an aging, upright Croat: Dr. Ivan Ribar, first president of Yugoslavia's Constitutional Assembly after World War I. To aid Democrat Ribar, the Committee named Serbian Communist Mosha Pijade and two other vice presidents, one a Croat, one a Slovene. Then they were ready...
Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...