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Died. Jekuthiel Ginsburg, 68, gentle, absent-minded Polish-Jewish emigre professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University, founder (1932) and editor of the quarterly Scripta Mathematica, onetime child prodigy (he tutored university students when he was 16), author (Numbers and Numerals); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...boards if they failed to pay protection money. After holding onto their franchise in the face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help...
Connecticut Democrats also nominated a candidate to run for McMahon's unexpired term: Hartford Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. The able, earnest son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ribicoff, who is 42, came out of University of Chicago Law School in the Depression, built a successful practice, went into politics, served four years in the state legislature, was elected to Congress in 1948 and again in 1950, running well ahead of the rest of his ticket. No razzle-dazzle campaigner, he prides himself on his stick-to-the-issues plainness, his visits by Ford convertible among voters everywhere in the state...
Latest writer to tell the old, old story is Sholem Asch, sad-eyed Polish-Jewish novelist (Three Cities), now in the U. S. Published this week is his long (698 pages) The Nazarene, November Book-of-the-Month.* As full of Hebraic fervor, and often as mournful, as a synagogue chant-it was written in Yiddish-The Nazarene brings ancient Palestine to life, offers the most extraordinary evocation of Jesus since Renan's. Yet Author Asch's viewpoint is so objective it should not offend Christian sensibilities...
When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...