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Died. Prince Alexander Obolensky, 24, Russian-born British Air Force pilot; in a plane crash when landing at an East Anglian airport, England...
Professor Leontief, a Russian-born scholar who took his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1928, was for two years adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways. He is co-author of a book, "Economics of the Recovery Program," and of numerous articles in periodicals...
Cleveland's Russian-born Telephone Diplomat Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, maker of expensive long-distance calls to foreign statesmen on behalf of peace, cabled to Joseph Stalin: "GET WISE TO YOURSELF. TELL THE WORLD THAT RUSSIA WAS AND IS WILLING TO DISARM AND SETTLE ALL DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION. CALL A WORLD CONFERENCE. HITLER, MUSSOLINI, CHAMBERLAIN, DALADIER ARE SAVAGES. TRY TO BRING THEM TO THE TABLE WITH THE HELP OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. A. PICKUS...
Small, bright, Russian-born Jenny Iphigenia Ballou got the idea of doing Ella Wheeler Wilcox several years ago when she and her husband were living near the Wilcox place at Short Beach, Conn. Her witty book obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level...
Stocky, broad-palmed, Russian-born Maurice Sterne, now 61, used to tend bar by night in order to study art by day. A traditionalist who yet manages to avoid the academic, Painter Sterne is best at variations on familiar themes, when his assured technique puts down in memorable line and color "a nude here, a head there, whatever catches...