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Died. Dr. Vladimir Petrovich Filatov, 81, leading Soviet eye surgeon and medical researcher, who developed (by 1936) one of the earliest successful techniques for corneal transplants; in Odessa...
...would remind that man," he went on, "of the fact that attempts have been made in the past to speak to us in those terms. After the October Revolution in our country there was a landing by the British, by the Americans, by the French at Odessa and by the Japanese at Vladivostok, but then the Russian people made an effort and cleared them...
Once, so the story goes, a Soviet commissar visited Violinist David Oistrakh in Odessa, looked into a cradle and sternly ordered, "Make that boy as good a violinist as his father." For a while it looked as if nothing like that could ever happen. David Oistrakh was already on his way to being one of the world's finest fiddlers, and young Igor showed signs of detesting violin sounds from the time he started making them at the age of six. But they kept his bow to the catgut. At 18 he entered the Moscow conservatory, became a master...
...RUBBER plant to be privately financed since the war will be built by El Paso Natural Gas Co. (TIME, Dec. 5) and General Tire & Rubber Co. In its first venture into the chemical industry, El Paso will feed natural gasoline, butane and propane into a $30 million plant at Odessa, Texas, and General Tire will convert the materials into synthetic rubber...
...work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily (who disappeared in 1953), trailed Zhukov to Odessa after his demotion...