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From the first preliminaries, there was little doubt among spectators or judges (among them: Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Oistrakh himself) as to the winner. Leonid Kogan, 26, native of Dnepropetrovsk, sounded brilliantly above the rest. But all four Russian entrants were among the twelve who survived the first high hurdles -a Bach sonata, a sonata by Ysaÿe, the great Belgian violinist (1858-1931), two concertos and six pieces of the contestants' choosing...
Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...
...Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Alan J. Ansen 1G, David Kaufman 3G, Michael Yatron, Arthur G. Kogan 2G, Reinhold S. Schumann 1G, Walter F. Stettner 3G, and Walter A. Kaufman...
...Order of Lenin, most exalted of all Soviet decorations, was awarded to 40 of the 404 officials who had acted as jailers and supervisors of the 55,000 during their forced-labor redemption. It was suddenly revealed for the first time that new Vice-Commissar for the Timber Industry Kogan acted as a jailer in the digging of the Baltic-White Sea Canal-something workers in the Timber Commissariat had never suspected about their close-mouthed boss...