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...Jacob Ben-Ami plays the hero of this expedition into misery. He is a playwright who is supposedly a genius, but who for a great many reasons never gets anywhere. The only important reason seems to be that Lenormand is determined to make him, along with everyone else in the play, an absolute failure. Mr. Ben-Ami's performance wrings the last ounce of emotion out of the part. His acting is too often convulsive--there is no shortage of arm waving and posturing. It is only fair to record, however, that Mr. Ben-Ami got a batch of bravos...
Boarding the Swedish liner Gripsholm in Manhattan, bound for Moscow, Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik loftily vetoed newsreel and television requests for a parting statement. Apparently not yet accustomed to U.S. editors who cut superfluous words, he complained that his famous Korean cease-fire speech had been censored in part. Said the nettled delegate: "American newsreels and television cut out much of the things I said." With a little coaxing, however, Malik managed a stiff smile and a few careful words: "Best luck and wishes to those in this country who fight for peace and friendship between...
...word went to U.S. ambassadors at the United Nations and in Moscow: sound out the Russians. At the U.N., the sounding produced only hollow noises. Russia's Jacob Malik, who had floated the first hint of peace, holed up in his Glen Cove mansion, claiming illness. One night he appeared as host at a U.N. dinner, tuxedoed and healthy-looking-but he dodged all questions about a ceasefire...
Just 22 hours before the anniversary of the day on which the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
Died. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, 53, junk dealer's son who became Al Capone's chief "collector" in Chicago during Prohibition, later teamed up with Jacob ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik in the red-light and gambling rackets; after long illness; in Chicago...