Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the obliging Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung, which seems to do a lot of Volksstimme's legwork,* revealed that the bananas came to Austria as part of a barter deal between Russian occupation forces and the Italians. Viennese really owed their thanks to a Soviet inspection officer who, it appeared, had never before seen a banana. The inspector had chomped a big bite of one-skin & all. Tasted horrible. His ruling: ". . . Unfit for Russian military personnel-dispose of them on the Austrian economy...
That career has run against the current of modern art. The stepson of a rich St. Petersburg banker, Berman was left homeless at 18 by the Russian Revolution. Settling in Paris, he was enchanted by the "Blue Period" paintings of another alien, Picasso, 18 years older than Berman. By that time, restless "Papa" Picasso was gaining notoriety as a cubist; but Berman, along with his brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left...
...Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...
...When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form of a triple question . . . Vichy? Gestapo? OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents of the OGPU," for he has had enough experience with them. But this time it is the Gestapo, which wishes him to become a Russian Lord Haw-Haw. Stepanoff gathers together the tag-ends of heroism, starves himself and cuts his wrist...