Word: pavel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
...Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
...pique, once locked her husband in his cellar workshop; another sued for divorce and won. Editor Albert Ingalls last week proudly called off some of his pet names: D. T. Broadhead (alias "Jim Fogarty") of Wellsville, N.Y.; William Buchel (alias "Robert Gray") of Toledo; Paul Linde (alias "Pavel Uvaroff") and Fred Person (alias "Alex MacTavish") of Biloxi, Miss. Said Ingalls solemnly: "A good roof-prism maker is the equal in military value of a whole company of soldiers...
...Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...
Holding the first of what it calls Twilight Previews (6 to 8 p.m.), Manhattan's streamlined Museum of Modern Art last week devoted two-thirds of its largest gallery space to Painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The 214 exhibits, hung against a color scheme (each wall a different shade) devised by the artist, formed the biggest retrospective Tchelitchew show ever assembled. The remaining rooms displayed 43 carvings, 25 drawings by American Sculptor John B. Flannagan, who died by suicide last January...