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Taking Over the Buyer. Elliott owes its enviable record to the vision of one man-bushy-browed Sir Leon Bagrit, 60, its Russian-born managing director. Bagrit, who was brought to Britain by his parents during World War I, started out as a salesman for a London scale manufacturer, founded his own engineering company in 1935. In 1946 his fast-growing firm was bought up by Elliott Brothers, an old-line instrument maker with dwindling sales. Bagrit took command of the merged company. Impressed by the control systems developed to leash atomic energy during World War II, he decided that...
...Albert Einstein and one of the most culture-minded towns in West Germany. The two earliest paintings were rather routine seascapes; the last eleven seemed to anticipate the expressionism of Emil Nolde. It was the paintings in between that interested art historians most. Just as Germany has its Russian-born Kandinsky; just as France has Gustave Moreau; and just as the U.S. has Marin and Arthur Dove, so Sweden now has its entry in the great international game of whose artists got into the abstract act first...
Died. Alexander Kahn, 80, Russian-born general manager of New York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...elegant French. Stern prefers to call this melting-pot style American rather than "international." and he himself is a prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut...
...Russian-born Mildred Paperman had been a disappointing witness in the past. In her first court appearance, in 1958, she had shown a feminine sensitivity about her age (50 next October). "What are you trying to do. bury me?" she had snapped to reporters. "I'm five or six years younger than you people said. It's bad enough to be 40, let alone the age you claim." In 1960, Secretary Paperman refused to turn over certain of Goldfine's tax records to the Internal Revenue Service and served ten days in pokey for her loyalty...