Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Louis Jouvet, 63, famed French actor, director, producer and manager of Paris' Athénée Theatre; of a heart attack; in Paris. A specialist in character roles from Molière to Giraudoux, he was best known to Americans through his films (Lady Paname, Volpone) until he came to Manhattan last March, when, despite the language barrier, he delighted audiences with his deft portrayal of giggling, grimacing Arnolphe, hero of Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes...
Artem I. Mikoyan, 52, Armenian-born brother of top Politburocrat Anastas I. Mikoyan and designer of Russia's famed MIG-15, which won him the 1947 Stalin Prize. Hot-tempered, limelight-hogging, he teamed up with Structural Specialist Mikhail Gurevich to produce World War II's MIG1 and MIG3 (the Russian Spitfire), after the war turned out a jet-propelled MIG-15, the first Russian jet to go into quantity production. He has twice been accused of using "capitalist tactics" to boost production of his own planes over others...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...
...Major General Nikolai Kechedzhi, age not given, "military specialist" attached to the Soviet navy...
...John Pratt, 75, brother of Hollywood's horror specialist, Boris Karloff,* had a distinguished, 27-year career in the British Foreign Service in China, was knighted in 1929, retired in 1938. From 1939 until 1941 he was head of the Ministry of Information's Far East Section, in 1948 was appointed to the nonpaying job of Foreign Office representative on the Universities' China Committee-a nonpolitical body which selects Chinese students wishing to attend British universities...