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...from Vassily Zubilin. At 7 a.m. one day last week, reaching the end of one important strand, FBI agents in Manhattan arrested two men and a woman on charges of serving as Soviet spies: Jack Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 64, both natives of Lithuania, and Soble's Russian-born wife Myra, 52. Handcuffed, the prisoners were escorted to Manhattan's federal courthouse, where a U.S. commissioner set bail at $100,000 apiece...
...tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost four). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and medieval history.) There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach Jordan, they recommended...
...majority of the U.S. Orthodox rabbinate. A.R.Z.O. will try to strengthen Jewish religious life in the U.S., is especially concerned with expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit's Mishkan Israel Synagogue, former national vice president of Mizrachi. Said Honorary Cochairman, Mordecai Kirshblum: "We represent the religious aspiration of Jewry to see in Israel not only a revival of the soil, but also of the soul...
...tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and Medieval history). There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach. Jordan, they recommended...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...