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...Bryant married a dynamic Lithuanian engineer, Albert Malsin. Soon she settled down to trying out her own creations while Malsin ran the business. He started retailing maternity wear by mail, added "stylish stouts," based "on the laws of optics, psychology and color." Making clothes for stout women, said Malsin, was not just making outsized versions of the "perfect 36." It was like camouflaging ships, the object being "to deceive the eye . . . as to the ship's size, its course and its speed...
...paintings were by a stage designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...
...Lithuanian-born Artist Deutsch, 51, worked at his painting about seven months. "I interpreted the idea I had in me," he said, "and I did it with lines and colors. I can't do it with words." Yet Deutsch's title, What Atomic War Will Do to You, packed a timely wallop. Some thought it must have been the title that had the winning punch...
July 4 he got his chance. Lithuanian-born, 50-year-old Captain Harold Cobin and 23-year-old West Pointer Lieut. George Wyatt, both in their U.S. Army uniforms, decided to visit the Nazis' old concentration camp at Oranienburg in the Russian zone near Berlin. Russian officers picked them up and took them to Potsdam, where they were held and interrogated regularly for 26 days...
Died. Sidney Hillman, 59, Lithuanian-born president of the C.I.O.'s well-disciplined Amalgamated Clothing Workers, founder of the P.A.C. and one of U.S. labor's political spokesmen; of coronary thrombosis; in Point Lookout, Long Island (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...