Word: lomakin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jacob M. Lomakin, 53, last identified as councilor of the Soviet embassy in Peking, onetime (1946-48) U.S.S.R. consul general in New York; after long illness; place not revealed. Jacob Lomakin was kicked out of the U.S. in 1948 for his role as the heavy in the case of Mrs. Oksana S. Kasenkina, the Russian schoolteacher who jumped from the consulate window in Manhattan (after Lomakin had confined her there to await involuntary return to the Soviet Union) and was picked up, seriously injured, to recover, become a U.S. citizen...
...landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time...