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...four months, Kenneth Wolf startled his Cleveland parents, who are both Russian-born lawyers, by speaking a complete sentence. A year and a half later, he toddled over to the family piano, pounded out a tune by Liszt. By the time he was ten, Kenny Wolf had written a dozen pieces of his own, had been asked to leave grammar school because he knew too much...
Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
Died. Dr. George W. Raiziss, 61, famed Russian-born chemotherapist, director of dermatological research at Philadelphia's Abbott Laboratories; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Dr. Raiziss developed Metaphen (one of the most potent antiseptics known), did important early research with the sulfa drugs, recently developed Diasone as a promising cure for tuberculosis (TIME...
...years Abraham Bitle had called himself Biddle, pronounced it Biddle, spelled it Biddle. Last week Russian-born Bartender Bitle, 42, went into common pleas court in Philadelphia to make it legal. He found he had failed to reckon with the descendants of another immigrant, one William Biddle, a shoemaker who served in Oliver Cromwell's army, served a jail term for Quaker preachings, and beat William Penn to the New World...
Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...