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...Russian-born Violinist Spivakovsky learned to balance his repertory by experience. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940 (at the age of 33), he already had 20 years of concert experience. He could spin out the Tchaikovsky Concerto with every Slavic sob intact, and he was the master, in lofty interpretations, of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos as well...
...Solicitor General of the U.S. (the Government's lawyer in cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition...
...Russian-born Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, professor of sociology at Harvard since 1930, has long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
Died. Savely Sorine, 74, Russian-born portrait artist, best known for his delicate paintings of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Russia's late great ballerina, Pavlova, Actress Lillian Gish; in Manhattan...
Just before he went overseas in 1918 (to serve with the 3O2nd Infantry, 27th Division), Harry White married Russian-born Anne Terry, a student at Pembroke College in Providence. A Phi Beta Kappa and later a successful author of children's books (e.g., Prehistoric America, Lost Worlds, Three Children and Shakespeare), Anne Terry White became an intense "liberal...