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Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television - we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky, 62, Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Burlington...
...Until a Russian-born tenor named Maxim Karolik came along, the first half of the 19th Century was rated a mediocre period in U.S. art. American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with rusty, romantic sunsets and tight, bright genre scenes. The dreamy landscapes of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt's Wagnerian-mood pictures of the Rocky Mountains were considered the best...
Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...
...lifetime of outstanding contributions to aeronautics, including pioneering with multi-engine airplanes, flying boats, amphibians and helicopters," Russian-born Igor I. Sikorsky, 62, was awarded the 1951 Guggenheim aviation medal...
...party's California state chairman, portly, Russian-born William Schneiderman, 46, was picked up in New York City. Schneiderman made headlines back in 1942, when Russia was an ally and Communists not so actively recognized by everybody as a clear & present danger. When the U.S. tried to revoke Schneiderman's citizenship, as a Communist, the late Wendell L. Willkie successfully defended him before the U.S. Supreme Court, describing him as a man with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting...