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...composer's Russian-born mother, chestnut-haired Rose Gershwin, basks in her son's posthumous adulation and largesse. Like her sons (George's brother Ira, who wrote the lyrics to some of George's best tunes, is now songwriting in Hollywood), she long ago left Manhattan's grubby East Side behind, now lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show...
...Russian-born Marc Chagall's I and the Village, one of the forerunners of surrealism, painted...
Artzybasheff, 46, is the Russian-born son of Novelist Michael Artzybasheff (Sanine). An old hand at commercial art, he has successfully illustrated 50-odd books-although he does not particularly like to be called an illustrator. He speaks simon-pure American in a soft voice, looks and dresses like a banker. One of his best-known graphic products: covers for TIME...
...Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose designs are both whirling and geometrical, hated the thought of painting "dogs, vases, naked women." To him "a circle is a living wonder" and a blob of color is enough to convey a mood (blue, "the typical heavenly color," stands for rest; blue-black for grief; violet, the echo of grief; green is "the bourgeoisie -self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
...Earth. Last week came news of a new antibiotic that may be as great as penicillin. Called streptomycin, it is a product of the mold-like Actinomyces griseus, which helps to give newly turned earth its distinctive smell. The drug was discovered by stocky, energetic Selman A. Waksman, 56, Russian-born microbiologist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, and dean of U.S. antibiotic researchers. (The first to use the word antibiotic for these new drugs, he was writing on the subject years before penicillin's rise...