Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garden, No Fish. Dr. Waksman, often called the dean of U.S. researchers in antibiotics, was born of Jewish parents in Priluki, a Russian peasant village near Kiev. He came to the U.S. at 22. In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went...
...Paris he set up housekeeping with a pretty Russian blonde named Angelina Beloff, learned Russian and talked Marxism with Angelina's expatriate friends. He also enlisted in the cafe cohorts of Pablo Picasso, who was by then knee-deep in cubism. "I have never believed in God," says Rivera today, "but I believe in Picasso." Cubism, he maintains, "was the most important development in art since the Renaissance." He points out that cubist principles of composition underlie his most realistic murals...
Nowadays, the only paintings in Rivera's studio besides his own are out-&-out abstractions by Russian Vassily Kandinsky and Switzerland's Paul Klee. "I like them," says Rivera, "because I have an educated nose. But I don't confuse myself and my friends and the art critics with the millions. I myself have always wanted to paint for the millions-and so I stick to my idea of a clear, firm, simple and precise art that everyone can understand...
...never a strong contender. Going into the stretch, three horses were still ahead of him and they stayed ahead. Out in front by eight lengths at the finish line was a rank outsider (66 to 1) named Russian Hero...
Among those with reason to be happy about Russian Hero's victory were Sportsman-Farmer William Williamson, his owner, who had bet ?10 on him at 300 to 1 in the winter books, collected a cool $12,000. Also prideful was the London Daily Worker's handicapper, who had picked Russian Hero to win, insisting that the tip was not purely political, just a bettor's hunch...