Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...IVAN G. SMITH, M.D. Pomona, Calif...
...conspiracy needed routing out. The inference was that, though Khrushchev is No. 1, "others" were powerful enough to do the dirty work, and did not have to clear everything with Khrushchev. As Khrushchev strode confidently through Communist Czechoslovakia, he was followed by tanned, blond, smiling State Security Boss Ivan Serov, watchdog of the Communist state and liquidator of millions. Many of Nikita's more reckless, vodka-primed speeches to the Czechs were drastically edited by other hands before being passed out to the press: Did Stalin let someone else, without his say-so, edit his remarks? The easy confidence...
...Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...
Chicago's sawed-off, white-fringed Ivan Le Lorraine Albright is noted for painting old bottles, dead fish, seaweed, rot and decay with a relentlessly realistic brush. When human beings squirm into his paintings, he makes them look as if they had just been removed from a freshly opened grave. Now, at 60, Albright has painted a commissioned portrait (his first) of a woman-alive...
...merely wanted a portrait as such," said a pleased Mrs. Block, "I would have had a color photograph taken. But I wanted one of the great artists of this country to do a suggestion of me, which would also be a great painting. I settled on Ivan as one of the outstanding artists in the U.S." Some of Mrs. Block's friends were less pleased. Growled one guest: "Looks like a dead woman...