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Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland...
...fortnight after the celebrated chat of Father Stanislaus Orlemanski with Joseph Stalin, the University of Chicago's Polish-born Professor Oscar Lange dropped in at the Kremlin, talked long and earnestly with the Soviet dictator. Afterwards he reported...
Died. Israel Joshua Singer, 50, bald, Polish-born Yiddish novelist (The Brothers Ashkenazi), since 1923 a member of the editorial staff of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Supreme Soviet and, for the past year, a Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs under Molotov, resigned his post the day after his chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...Apostle (Putnam; $3), famed Polish-born Novelist Sholem Asch has combined storytelling skill with historical accuracy and the sympathy of a deeply religious writer. In stature, The Apostle ranks with Asch's earlier work, The Nazarene (TIME...