Word: olga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...Heroine Olga, who married and divorced Michael Chekhov, is not to be confused with her distinguished aunt, Actress Olga Chekhova, widow of Michael's uncle, the great Anton Chekhov...
...knowledge and interests has had us hopping to keep ahead of your queries -like these: "Can you tell me what former President's wife was referred to as 'Lemonade Lucy'?" (Ans.: Mrs. James K. Polk) . . . "Where can I get the only two recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French...
...Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into the center...