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DIED. Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-born psychoanalyst and iconoclastic author, whose unorthodox theories of cosmic evolution, published in 1950 as Worlds in Collision, outraged scientists; in Princeton, N.J. Combining a vast knowledge of biblical and mythological lore with his study of Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses, Velikovsky developed a controversial theory of colliding planets. He contended-in total violation of the laws of celestial mechanics-that a fragment from the planet Jupiter brushed by earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods...
DIED. Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Russian-born composer who won three Oscars for his soaring scores for The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea and High Noon, and another for High Noon's memorable theme song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'; after fracturing his pelvis in a fall; in London. Intent on pursuing a career as a concert pianist, Tiomkin left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, made his Paris concert debut in 1924 and two years later performed for the first time in the U.S. Caught in the rush of talent to Hollywood...
DIED. Boris Chaliapin, 74, Russian-born artist who exhibited widely and painted more than 400 cover portraits for TIME; of cancer; in New York City. The son of the famed Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, Boris was named for his father's most famous role, Boris Godunov. After studying art in Moscow, he spent ten years polishing his skills in Paris. In 1935 he emigrated to America, and seven years later he sold TIME his first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete...
DIED. Charles Angoff, 77, novelist, critic, educator and sole editorial associate of H.L. Mencken on the sassy literary monthly American Mercury; of cancer; in New York City. In 1925 Russian-born Angoff was chosen by Mencken over 61 applicants to assist him at the newborn Mercury. Angoff stayed on for 25 years, becoming, in Mencken's view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying...
...Russian-born economist and economic historian, Gerschenkron came to the United States in 1938 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley until 1942. He joined the Faculty in 1948 and taught here until his retirement...