Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN...
Witness No. 3 was Vladimir I. Toumanoff, 29, formerly a department recruiting officer, now concerned with efficiency rating. With his testimony, the investigation turned specifically toward the question of homosexuals. At the outset Chairman Joe McCarthy struck a wild blow: Witness Toumanoff, he observed, was born "in the Russian Legation [in Constantinople] subsequent to the Communist revolution, so that of necessity his parents had to be acceptable to the Communist regime." The facts are that Toumanoff's parents were titled White Russians, and the legation was still a czarist enclave at the time of his birth...
...steeplechase champion, who got the Sullivan Trophy as "the amateur athlete . . . who did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." A rank outsider in pre-race ratings, Ashenfelter pulled off the biggest upset of the Olympics when he beat Russia's Record-Holder Vladimir Kasantsev in Olympic-record time...
...Katz-Suchy, with head and tongue injuries, and a Polish woman journalist, who was also hurt. Reporters learned that Katz-Suchy had plane reservations for Europe and was scheduled to leave the night after the accident. U.N. corridor gossip had insistently compared him to Czechoslovakia's recently executed Vladimir dementis (TIME, Dec. 15), who was also recalled from an Assembly session. Katz-Suchy may well have been in a state of mind calculated to make him accident-prone...
...days after they were condemned, Rudolf Slansky, Vladimir Clementis and nine other alleged Communist fomenters of "Zionist" and "Jewish nationalism" went to the gallows.* As dutifully as they had confessed to all manner of errors and evil, they had waived their right of appeal. They went to their deaths in the same grim Pankrac prison where they were tried...