Word: russian-born
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...gallery called the Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...
...hands to express himself. The men wanted to hear more. Back came Blai. He was swamped with requests, questions. Result was a Blai-promoted fund-raising and teacher-recruiting campaign. First classes were held last spring. Subjects were painting, sculpture, ceramics, lithography, bookbinding, jewelry-making. Last fortnight Russian-born Boris Blai told a few stories about his schools...
Assiduously pumped by a Russian-born pianist and writer, Victor Ilyich Seroff, Aunt Nadejda tells all. The result, Shostakovich's first full-length biography (Dmitri Shostakovich by Victor Ilyich Seroff; Knopf; $3), shows its subject to be not only a bespectacled firewarden and heroic musical panegyrist of embattled Russia, but an engaging human being who might have stepped out of the pages of a Chekhov family drama...
Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...
...Russian-born William Schneiderman came to the U.S. when he was three, sucked in Marxist pap with his borscht, became a Communist when he was 17, kept mum about it when he was naturalized in 1927 (at 21), eventually became Communist state secretary for California. In 1940, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco revoked his citizenship, holding that he had "obtained his certificate of citizenship illegally" because he failed to reveal that he belonged to a party which "advised, advocated and taught the overthrow of the Government by force and violence." Communist Schneiderman enlisted the aid of Wendell Willkie...