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This week the Russian-born Brooklyn cabinetmaker was 78, and on his way to minor fame in the screwball wing of primitive (self-taught) art. Fifteen of his "primitives" were on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery and selling well, at $300-$750 apiece...
...turbaned Patriarch Gregory Peter XV of the Armenian Catholics. He joined Cardinal Ignatius Tappouni of Syria, elevated in 1935, as the second red hat from the Eastern Rite since 1472. With Russia now claiming the rest of Armenia from Turkey, the Pope's promotion of the Russian-born Patriarch had added significance...
...premiere. It was large in scale, a great, brassy creation with some of the intricate efficiency and dynamic energy of a Soviet power plant and some of the pastoral lyricism of a Chekhov countryside. The man who introduced it to the U.S., the Boston Sym phony's famed Russian-born Sergei Kous-sevitsky, was ecstatic. He called the Fifth "the greatest musical event in many, many years. The greatest since Brahms and Tchaikovsky! It is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow...
From one-legged, Russian-born Alexander de Seversky (Victory through Air Power) came a declaration intended to be heartening: the atomic bomb is just another bomb...
Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...