Word: magidoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small (5 ft. 2 in.), pleasant-faced blonde of 33, she was a native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...
...weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported Robert Magidoff of NBC, who heard it: "sensitive, playful and irresistible...
...warcaster who has sat longest at a Russian microphone during World War II recently returned to the U.S NBC's thin, quiet, earnest Robert Magidoff, ex-A.P. man, has been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...
...Nila Magidoff, authority on Soviet Education, will address the Harvard Radcliffe Council of Russian War Relief tomorrow night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room from 8 to 9:30 o'clock. The subject of her talk will be "The Russian University in Wartime...
...well as being a student of the Russian educational system, Mrs. Magidoff is also wife of the NBC correspondent from Moscow and has only recently arrived in this country. It is expected that she will be interviewed over the Crimson Network after her talk...