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Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
With each successive story, Novelist Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File) grows richer and more book clubbable. He also finds it harder and harder to get his action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every conceivable subject from the state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about...
...Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov was made Deputy Defense Minister, then rose to full Minister and member of the Presidium. After a row with Khrushchev, he was drummed back into obscurity, but resurfaced in the mid-1960s and went to his Kremlin...
LOWELL HOUSE JCR, Odessa Steps, by Eisenstein, Vivre by Vilardebo, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Enrico, refreshments and discussion following films...
...Moscow has rejected the idea on the ground that there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. One solution considered by the Israelis: to let an American or European airline handle the task. It might also be possible to bring the emigrants out by sea, perhaps from Odessa or from a Rumanian port...