Word: iz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian word for "from" is iz, which can hardly be a misprint for chrez posredstvo, which is how the Russians would translate Lincoln...
...Iz." Unlike most show people, Ed Wynn did not come up the hard way, and he has been a success from the start. He began as Isaiah Edwin Leopold, son of a rich Philadelphia ladies' hat manufacturer...
...gift for convulsing his father's sales ladies by the way he wore the ladies' hats made it clear that he was not cut out for the millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...
...Iz did run away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...
...inside view of Japan at war. As an Argentine commercial attaché, 33-year-old Ramón Muñiz Lavalle was in Hong Kong when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left...