Word: lithuanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escape to "Little Italy." The son of a poor Lithuanian bargemaster, Zorach was taken to America when he was four, eventually settled in the "little Italy" district of Cleveland. While his father peddled junk, young William peddled newspapers, quit school at 13, became an apprentice lithographer. He saved his money, got to New York and finally to Paris, where he fell under the spell of the Fauvists (the Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that...
According to the U.S. charges, as far back as 1940, Lithuanian-born Robert Soblen and his brother Jack made a bargain with Soviet Secret Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. The deal: both men agreed to come to the U.S. and set up separate spy rings, and Beria in exchange permitted their families-some 15 persons in all-to emigrate with them. Dr. Soblen, the Government charges, procured secret documents of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, information about an "atomic-bomb project on the Northwest Coast," photographs of the Sandia nuclear-weapons development center at Albuquerque-and arranged...
Accompanying Simonov were Yokena , a literary scholar in modern American writing: Vera Panova, whose poetry and prose won Stalin Prizes; and Eduardas B. a Lithuanian writer of and children's books...
...Passionate Sightseer, B.B., who came from a Lithuanian rabbinical family, again refers to this philosophy, interestingly enough once again in reference to a work of Christian religious art. This time, he says of the churches of Rome, "People cannot move around in these churches without its influencing their outlook on the universe and without furnishing them with standards and values...
...astonished Norwegian Foreign Office hurriedly arranged a program for Mikoyan, and wondered what important object the wily Anastas had in mind. In his first speech in Norway, Mikoyan declared that the Soviet Union had never attacked any country (Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian papers, please copy) and would not attack Norway either. Turning to Prime Minister Gerhardsen, he asked: "Can you promise me the same?" Said one stunned Norwegian: "Has Mikoyan come here simply to get a promise that Norway will not attack the Soviet Union...