Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin's 25-year...
Complementing this analysis, on the following Thursday, Leonid I. Strakhovsky, professor of Russian History and Literature at the University of Toronto, will set forth "The Riddle of Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy...
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...
...audiences at the finals vigorously applauded all the ultimate prizewinners, including Second Prizewinner Mikhail Vayman, 24, Third Prizewinner Elisabeth Cserfalvi, 25, and Fourth Prizewinner Olaf. But the biggest crowd came out on the last afternoon for Leonid Kogan. By the time he had glided masterfully through the perilous Paganini Concerto in D Major, the Bruxellois were yelling bravo. Kogan grinned, bowed quickly and walked off into a flood of backstage congratulations. The judges' decision an hour later confirmed what everyone already knew: Kogan had won hands down...
...United States Public Health Service has granted $5,417 to the University for research on lung cancer. Dr. Leonid S. Snegireff, associate professor of Cancer Control, will use the grant for studying cancer patients in Massachusetts hospitals as to conditions which lead up to the disease...