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Died. Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, 58, Russian-born wife of Earl Browder, deposed head (1946) of the Communist Party in the U.S., and mother of his three sons; after long illness; in Yonkers, N.Y. Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death...
...Russian-born Zoé Oldenbourg's complex tale of knights and knaves is packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded...
...machine age, few artists have found inspiration in the machine. Some, seeing it only as cold and impersonal steel, portrayed it with stark realism; others, fearing it, blew it to pieces in abstracts and cubes. Russian-born Boris Artzybasheff brought the machine to life, endowed it with personality, sex-and even ulcers...
...books will be invaluable keys both to Turgenev and to the "mystery" of Russian slavishness. The Turgenev Family, an eyewitness report written in 1884 by Varvara Zhitova, adopted daughter of Turgenev's mother, is like the beginning of a psychiatrist's case history: it deals with the patient's heredity and early environment. Turgenev: A Life, by David Magarshack. a competent. Russian-born biographer (Chekhov: A Life), is more a full-dress analysis of his great artistic achievement and personal unhappiness...
Married. Geraldine Page, 29, star of stage and screen (Hondo}; and Alexander Schneider, 45, Russian-born concert violinist ; each for the second time; in Tarrytown...