Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spitting. It was then Vishinsky's turn to get up and talk. Famed as the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow treason trials (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936), Vishinsky was badly handicapped last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
Things were far from hopeless-at a Madison Square Garden rally honoring Vladimir Lenin he pointed out that strikes were being conducted "on a high level," that the present vast uproar over wages might well get bigger and louder, that corporations were "lousy with money...
...grocer and his family are not an edifying crew. The grocer (played with enthusiastic hatred by Character Actor Vladimir Vladislavsky), is hoarding all the money which his former employer, a Jew, left in his safekeeping. By law, he should have turned over half of it to the Reich. The grocer's daughter and her crippled fiance use this knowledge to blackmail him into setting up the fiance to a store of his own. The grocer's son, when he comes home on leave from the Russian front, is half insane with contempt for his family; and his pathological...
...nberg: Verklärte Nacht" (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 8 sides). A melodic tone poem for strings, written before Schönberg got lost in dissonances. Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
Three and a half minutes later, a team of doctors headed by Moscow's famed Vladimir Negovski went to work. A forcible blood injection raised Cherepanov's blood pressure. After one minute his heart began to beat. He breathed in three minutes, became conscious in an hour. Soon, hale & hearty, Cherepanov was on medical display...