Word: tamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Wogan Philipps, 52, eldest son of Britain's millionaire Baron Milford and unsuccessful onetime (1950) Communist candidate for Parliament; and Tamara Rust, 40, widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...
Balanchine well remembers the Baltic steamer ride from Russia. Many passengers were seasick, and the hungry dancers, who included Tamara Geva and Alexandra Danilova, had plenty of food for the first time in years. "I think maybe we were seasick too," says Balanchine, "but we ate anyway." The ballet world remembers the trip because it was part of ballet's great westward movement. Like many other Russian tourists in those days, Balanchine & Co. finally got a telegram: return at once or be punished. Says Balanchine: "If we went back, we would be punished anyhow-no food." He never went...
...Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva in Evening Moscow: "It was with enormous indignation and wrath that we, the youth of the University construction project, learned of the repulsive activities of the despised hireling of foreign people...
...Associated Press correspondent in Moscow, Eddy Gilmore found the road to romance rocky when he courted Russian Ballerina Tamara Chernashova ten years ago. The Russians not only refused to let Correspondent Gilmore marry her, they even shipped her away from Moscow so that he couldn't see her. In desperation, Gilmore asked for help from his friend Wendell Willkie, who promptly cabled Stalin: "Anything you can do to facilitate this union I will personally appreciate." Stalin gave his permission for Gilmore to marry, "as a special exception on [Willkie's] recommendation and vouching." When their first child...
...first the search concentrated on the women. The principal pro-Mossadegh daily, Bakhtar-e-Emruz, hinted broadly: "It is known that the general did not go out of his way to avoid the company of women." The police picked up Tamara, a faded femme fatale, Teheran's top belly dancer two decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh...