Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of Lithuanian to satisfy the parents who wanted the language taught. Otherwise, Worcester was all set; for the first time since the war, the city had enough teachers. San Francisco and Denver reported the same...
Vaichulis, who had made up his mind to be a research scientist when he was a kid in Chicago's Lithuanian slums 30 years ago, deciding to have a go at the tenacious typhoid bugs, teamed up in experiments with famed Illinois Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy (TIME, Jan. 13, 1947). There were 146 patients in Manteno's "Typhoid Hall" when Drs. Ivy and Vaichulis began treating them. By last week all but six had given repeated negative reactions to culture tests for typhoid; most had already been released as disinfected. The two doctors were ready to tell...
...paintings led Band from his Lithuanian village to Berlin, where he acquired a wife, and then to Paris, where he made his reputation. Finally he came to the U.S., where he did President Roosevelt's portrait, among others. His latest pictures, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, still look a little as if they had been painted with a stick and salad dressing (he uses dark pigments, thickly smeared on), but the best of them have a melancholy force...
Curly-haired Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, 35, used to cut quite a dashing figure as a skier and amateur bicycle champion. About a year ago, the prince (French by birth, Lithuanian by descent) became Barbara Hutton's fourth husband. Then he developed an intense interest in a very expensive sport: auto racing...
Bobo's mother and stepfather, who were unable to attend the ceremony because they were making a batch of Lithuanian cheese on their Indiana farm, both announced that they were happy. Rockefeller's mother and father, who were vacationing in Tucson, Ariz., said they were happy...