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...Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, 39, was orphaned when his parents, fleeing the revolution, both died in Danzig. The family nurse took him to Brussels, and a family friend offered to pay for his education. De Staël studied with an art teacher who sent him on bicycle trips all over western Europe, where he practiced by copying masterpieces in museums. His enthusiasm waxed with his skill. But he had no popular success at first, often went hungry. During World War II, he served in the Foreign Legion, went straight back to his Paris studio afterwards. Then...
...Yonkers, N.Y., Mrs. Earl Browder, 56, Russian-born wife of the former head of the American Communist Party, charged with perjury and illegal entry into the U.S., was served with a deportation warrant by immigration agents. Pleading illness, she posted a $2,000 bond pending a formal hearing...
...sculpture calculated to make an artist rich. His massive, impressionistic panels, with their looping curves and intricate designs, are too overpowering for most people. But Artist Baizerman, a wispy little (5 ft. 5½ in., 134 Ibs.) feather of a man, has never worried about financial rewards. The Russian-born son of a harness maker, he started out as a middling good classical sculptor, tired of it in 1920 just after he won the sculpture competition for a monument in front of Grant's Tomb. "I felt it belonged to a world of the past," he says...
...proverbial straw came during 1948, when 10,000 Jews flocked to the square in front of Moscow's Great Synagogue to cheer the Israeli Ambassador, Russian-born Mrs. Golda Myerson. Exasperated secret police promptly put the Israeli embassy under a sort of diplomatic house arrest and prevented Russian Jewry from having any dealings with it. Beria then started to climinate all remaining Jewish institutions in Russia...
...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...