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...Russian-born Ely Culbertson, gifted with a real talent for cards and an absolute genius for personal publicity. His Contract Bridge Blue Book leaped to the bestseller lists in 1931, sold more than 1,000,000 copies within a few years...
...Realists. Madame Sarraute, the Russian-born wife of a Paris lawyer, has been acclaimed a leader of a group called the New Realists, who urge a new kind of objectivity, which is at once both more detached and more intense. "In this future universe of the novel," says Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, the group's titular leader, "gestures and objects will be 'there,' before being 'something'; and they will still be there afterwards, hard, unalterable, eternally present, mocking their own meaning . . . No longer will objects be merely vague reflections of the hero's vague...
...youngest, most brilliant and most cosmopolitan cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
With an ear on the flap over all-conquering Pianist Van Cliburn, Russian-born Violinist Mischa Elman, 67, who has a gaggle of honors from his youth, warned graduates of Philadelphia's Combs College of Music: "Contests have their place in things like athletics, which are judged objectively, but in music it is not the single performance that makes a champion; it is the sustained consistency in performance quality that is the important, the telling factor-and that only time can determine." Cliburn, meanwhile, kept up his wowing ways in Great Britain, where, after a word tussle with London...
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated...