Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School-of-Moscow realism. There were glorified scenes of farmers and construction workers, kindly Red soldiers surrounded by admiring children, ball-fisted strikers and heroic rioters-all with clear brows, stern eyes and rippling muscles...
...world's greatest athlete returned home a hero. Then it was discovered that Jim had played summer baseball in 1909 and 1910-for $25 a week. That made Jim a professional. When a stern-eyed Amateur Athletic Union demanded that Jim return his Olympic medals and trophies, Jim meekly handed them over...
Professor Abraham Glasser, 38, of the Rutgers Law School, was called because FBI reports alleged that as a special attorney in the Department of Justice in 1938, he gave information to three OGPU agents known as "X," "Nikolai Stern" and "Ovakimian." Another Justice Department report cleared him of being a Communist agent, but recommended that he be dismissed for "careless and improper" disclosure of official information. When the committee asked whether he could identify photographs of "X" or "Stern," Glasser refused to answer. About the only thing he would say: he is not now an "actual, official, card-carrying, organizationally...
Pinochle Money. When Rosalind was 19, her father died. He left an estate of close to $500,000 and some stern injunctions to his children: they could have as much education as they wanted-but once graduated, they would get no money for three years. Rosalind still thinks it a wonderful will: "My father was a self-made man who'd worked his way through Yale Law School. He didn't want us to sit around, drink cocktails, play bridge, and wait for husbands. We had to get going...
...Pittsburgh Symphony led the parade. Under the baton of William Steinberg, and with Violinist Isaac Stern as soloist, the up & coming Pittsburgh gave a high-spirited performance featuring Gustav Mahler's First Symphony and Modernist Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto. Listeners and critics were especially impressed by the orchestra's brilliance and enthusiasm...