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Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...fortnight ago, when Browder and his Russian-born wife were indicted for making false statements about Mrs. Browder's Communist affiliations during a 1949 naturalization hearing, there were no big friends to help. Browder, who still calls himself a Communist although he was expelled from the party in 1946, was locked up, and Mrs. Browder with...
Married. Marc Chagall, 63, Russian-born expressionist painter, and Mme. Valentine Brodski, fortyish, who looks (said Chagall's daughter) as though "she stepped out of one of father's paintings"; both for the second time; in Clairefontaine, France...
Died. Eliezer Kaplan, 61, Deputy Prime Minister (since last month) of Israel, former Finance Minister, and one of the chief architects of the hand-to-mouth Israeli economic policy; of a heart attack during a vacation trip; in Genoa. Russian-born, he migrated to Palestine in 1923, after playing an active part in Zionist affairs in Russia and Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he negotiated the first international loan made to Zionism-a ?2,000,000 grant from Lloyds Bank of London...
Died. Efim Dmitrievich Bogolyubov, 64, Russian-born German national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...