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Twice Forced To Leave. Tony Shub's family background may have made the Soviets especially wary of him. His father, David Shub, 81, is a Russian-born Social Democrat who was expelled from Russia by Czarist officials during the liberal agitation before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Settling in the U.S., the elder Shub wrote Lenin, still one of the authoritative books on the revolutionary's life. When ordered out of Russia by a Foreign Ministry official last week, the younger Shub replied: "My father was also twice forced to leave the country by the Russian authorities...
Died. Ben Shahn, 70, U.S. portraitist, poster maker, muralist and artistic polemicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Is there nothing to weep, about in this world any more?" the shaggy-bearded artist once asked. For him, the answer was always yes. Son of a Russian-born immigrant, Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, and his proletarian vision was forged in the class-consciousness of the Depression. He employed elements of both Cubism and Surrealism in his own spare variant of social realism. In 1932 he won fame portraying the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Thereafter...
Biblical Predecessors. If she accepts, the Russian-born onetime Milwaukee schoolteacher will be the third woman to rule Israel and the territory that was ancient Judah (after two Biblical predecessors, Jezebel's daughter Athaliah and Queen Alexandra). A longtime aide to Premier David Ben-Gurion, who once called her "the only man in my Cabinet" because she firmly backed his hard-lining policies toward the Arabs, she served as Labor Minister, and later as Foreign Minister for ten years. In 1966, she retired from the government, but until last summer remained Secretary General of the Israel Labor Party...
Spitting the Pits. Pushkin's life was no less odd and puzzling than his works, as this solid, sometimes pedestrian biography by Russian-born David Magarshack makes clear. As a founding father of Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand...
Died. Vernon Duke, 69, Russian-born songwriter who scored many Broadway and London musical hits (Cabin in the Sky, Two Little Girls in Blue) with such well-remembered favorites as April in Paris, Autumn in New York and Taking a Chance on Love; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...