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...blue-eyed and blond. He was a growth from Russia's rich soil-earthy, sturdy, solid in mind and body. His open face was typically Russian, as was his name (voron means raven). A big man, he liked big, sturdy things. On Russia's battlefields he saw guns in action: he liked them...
...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
...Misses Chandralehka & Nayantara Pandit, raven-eyed nieces, 19 and 16, of imprisoned India Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru, arrived in Manhattan to enter Wellesley College. Chandralehka had been jailed by the British for seven months. She said she left jail with her political convictions stronger than when she entered. The sisters traveled on a troopship whose passengers included some wounded Marines from Guadalcanal. "We had a grand time with them," said Chandralehka. "We discussed Indian affairs all the time...
...Partisans Speak. This state of affairs, plus an Allied note of congratulation to Mihailovich from General Eisenhower (TIME, Jan. 25), got under the skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
Britain's "Sagittarius" (real name Olga Katzin) has a nasty knack of rhyming world political events into their proper perspective. Her parody of Poe's The Raven was given documentation last week by events in Italy...