Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second year in high school, her parents were beginning to wonder whether her singing was good enough to justify full-time study. Conductor Vladimir Bakaleinikoff, now musical adviser of the Pittsburgh Symphony, listened and said yes. So her mother took her to New York, and there they went to see a voice teacher named William Herman. Teacher Herman listened to Pat, looked her over once, then summed her up like a judge at a stock show: "Wide face, straight back, well-developed torso, flexible figure, great thoracic swing, long tongue, high-arched palate, proportion of vocal cords to resonators almost...
...Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television - we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky, 62, Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Burlington...
Died. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch ("Mrs. Sim"), 84, famed Manhattan social worker, agitator for public housing, woman suffrage, federal aid to education, kindergartens; in Greenwich House, the famous settlement she founded 50 years ago. With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater...
...Vladimir Zworykin...
...Vladimir Horowitz...