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...Polish-born Pola Negri, 51, heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, who first came to the U.S. in 1922, appeared last week in a Los Angeles federal court to take her final oath as a U.S. citizen. She was now busy, she said, writing her autobiography to be called, As Much As I Dare...
Research knows no frontiers, but researchers in different parts of the world often work, unknown to each other, on the same problem. Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone. Kendall called it compound...
Died. Max Radin, 70, Polish-born legal scholar, longtime (1919-48) teacher of law at the University of California; in Oakland. An outspoken Brandeisian liberal, good friend of New Deal Legalists Felix Frankfurter and Thurman Arnold, Radin once said: "The law is not a bag of tricks that any fool can learn and any rascal can apply, but an attempt at coordinating the methods by which some social mechanism can enforce right dealing between...
...Polish-born John Czernyha '51 of Kirkland House is also receiving safe grades to hold his scholarship and has no interest in American girls. Czernyha, who hopes to finish a book he is writing on Russian concentration camps (he is a first-hand authority on German ones) this summer, has been engaged for the past year to a girl he met in a Polish DP camp last year, and who is now living in Hartford. Czernyha is working in Hartford this summer and hopes to be married within a month...
...Polish-born, handsome Jackin Saij had grown up in the southern Ukraine, had lost his first wife & children during four years in a Nazi labor camp. Before they disappeared, the children had learned to tell the Nazis lies about their father, so that Jackin got frequent floggings. When the Russians returned, Jackin became their prisoner. Last November, Jackin married a fellow prisoner, and in December the two arrived in the U.S., their belongings in a rope-tied bundle...