Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week 55-year-old Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail...
...nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been a paid U.S. agent and had plotted the overthrow of the Bulgarian government with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
Speaking on the Lowell Institute's "America at the Crossroad" program over WEEI last night, Professor John K. Fairbank '29, Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Benjamin I. Schwartz 4G, graduate student fellow at the Russian Research Center, agreed that U.S. recognition of the Chinese Red will play a small part in the future of Asia...
...Real American." Now that he has a permanent home in which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the Sadler's Wells (TIME, Oct. 17). One step in the direction of making it a "real American" ballet was the addition to the staff this season of bright, witty, U.S.-born Choreographer Jerome (Fancy Free) Robbins...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...