Word: russian-born
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...just that moment one of the conshies, 26-year-old Russian-born Michael De Beausset (who played Major Swindon in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple), was due to turn up for induction. Instead he wrote the Army a letter: "As I explained to my draft board, I like the United States of America. But my sentiments would hamper the war effort." He was promptly arrested as a draft-dodger...
Though less star-studded than the Ballet Russe of the glittering '30s, the Ballet Theatre's 1942-43 roster contains three first-magnitude dancers: curvesome, Russian-born Irina Baronova; lithe, British-born Alicia Markova (real name Alice Marks); British-born Anton Dolin (real name Patrick Healey...
...Russian-born U.S. merchant seaman just back from Murmansk said last week...
Anxious to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Russian-born Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini, 29, Hollywood studio designer and husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, became a U.S. citizen. Said Actress Tierney, when questioned as a witness: "I know him to be the finest type of manhood...
...that rose on the curly head of Wendell Lund, son of a Lutheran minister, had set on the stooped, little Russian-born son of a Jewish merchant. After almost three years of anxious, conscientious, misunderstood service to Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman was through. He had wanted the job that went to Paul McNutt. The job that went to Wendell Lund might have galled him. But what would have been a long step down for Sidney Hillman was a long step up for Wendell Lund...