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That grotesque confession should be sufficient to discredit the man who made it, a Russian-born teacher and friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's named George de Mohrenschildt. But nothing ever seems sufficient to still Kennedy assassination stories; time and events merely complicate them. Last week-only an hour after a congressional investigator asked to meet with him in Manalapan, Fla. -De Mohrenschildt apparently committed suicide, by putting a 20-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Suddenly there was intense interest in what he might have told the investigator. Sure enough, within 48 hours, a world...
Died. Leonid, 80, Russian-born neoromantic painter; in Manhattan, where he had lived since World War II. While painting on the Mediterranean coast in the 1920s, Leonid became fascinated by the mysterious beauty of the shore, and pale, silent seascapes became his hallmark...
Harmonious Balance. Born and raised in Paris, the son of a well-off engineer, Delaunay was not afflicted by the poverty that befell most of his fellow artists. He gave all his time to painting. From that aspect, he was lucky in marriage too. His Russian-born wife, Sonia Terk (whom Delaunay met in 1909), was a gifted artist, and they worked out an unusually harmonious balance between their talents. After staying a few weeks with the young couple in 1912, Apollinaire sighed that "The Delaunays start talking art as soon as they wake up." In his worse moments, Delaunay...
Died. Gregor Piatigorsky, 73, Russian-born cello virtuoso; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. First cellist of Moscow's Imperial Theater at 14, Piatigorsky moved to the U.S. and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1929. After 1962 he taught at the University of Southern California along with his friend Jascha Heifetz. An enormous man with huge hands, Piatigorsky was a master of the sweeping line and romantic phrasing. A performer, he said, must constantly strive "to make the music as good as it really...
...marriage−to wed Lorraine Dillon Armbruster, 28, a sometime fashion model whom he met in Paris a year ago. After the Jewish ceremony, the happy couple accepted congratulations from a crowd of well-wishers that included Best Man Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips and Bernie's Russian-born ma, Sophie Cornfeld, 88, who pronounced it all "the greatest day of my life." She was, after all, gaining not only a daughter but a grandchild, due in August...