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Bialoguski's urge to conduct had acquired the force of "a biological necessity." He first felt it as a youth in Vilna, Lithuania, where he studied in the local conservatory and became the director of a music theater. During World War II, he emigrated to Australia and studied to become an M.D., but continued with music as a member of the violin section of the Sydney Symphony. Simultaneously, he served the Australian government by infiltrating the Soviet Union's intelligence network there-a career that he capped by helping to persuade Soviet Espionage-Chief Vladimir Petrov to defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Dreaming the Possible Dream | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Menu Theater. The Papp who is papa of all this theatrical enterprise was born Joseph Papirofsky 47 years ago in the tough Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where his father was a trunkmaker from Poland and his mother a seamstress from Lithuania. After high school and some 20 miscellaneous jobs, including short-order cook and sheet-metal worker, he served a four-year hitch in the Navy and used the G.I. bill to join the Actors Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. In 1954, back in Manhattan as stage manager for CBS-TV, Papp organized an unsalaried Shakespeare workshop in the basement Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impresarios: Public Papa | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...Above all in the world; When it comes to defense and defiance, Stand united as brothers, From the Meuse to the Meinel, from the Adige to the Belt, Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world. Today the Meuse River flows in France and Belgium, the Memel in Lithuania, the Adige in Italy, and the Belt in Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Bothersome Opposition | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...view of the Soviet Union's demand that Israel return to its original boundaries, would it not be appropriate for the Israeli representative to the U.N. to request that the Soviet Union do likewise, that is, return East Berlin, Poland, Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, two portions of Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and several outlying bases to their original owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1967 | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

There's a lot of that Santha Rama Rau crud in the front of the book about old Joe's family and how they came to India from Poland or Lithuania and all. His mother is always telling Joe to tuck his goddam shirt in, but she's mostly wrapped up in all the swell work she's doing for the Bombay chapter of the Hadassah and worrying about her daughters marrying some Buddhist. His father-Sir Abraham for Chrissake-is a King's Counsel, a lawyer who's only interested in making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catcher in the Rice | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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