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Brave New World. Television is the best example. In 1923, Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, Westinghouse's Russian-born wizard, invented the eye of the modern TV camera-the iconoscope, and developed the kinescope. Sarnoff then called television "a dream whose shadowy outlines are beginning to appear on the far horizon," and set to work to make it come true. In 1928, RCA opened an experimental TV station in New York and during the next 20 years poured $50 million into television. At the opening of New York's World...
Last week Russian-born Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky was dead, at 76, of a cerebral hemorrhage. No one could deny that his responsibility, although self-imposed, had been well carried out; he had made a phenomenal contribution to world music in general, to American music in particular...
...Russian-born Trainer Sol Rutchick, it was a frustrating but satisfactory day. He missed his morning plane from New York, and did not see Count Turf live up to his breeding expectations. Son of Count Fleet, winner of the 1943 Derby, Count Turf is a grandson of Reigh Count, the 1928 victor. Six Derby winners have sired winners; Count Turf is the first winner's grandson...
Eoina Nudelman is a Russian-born artist who makes a living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...
...When Russian-born Simon Barere made his U.S. debut in 1936, he was hailed as "a pianist of the first rank." He had everything-thunder, poetry, brilliance and dazzling speed. But somehow Simon Barere, a man with little flair for the limelight, failed to catch the fancy of the crowds...