Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor (Vladimir Horowitz, with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). The piece which most people know (from its opening themes) as Tonight We Love, Concerto for Two, etc., gets a brilliant recording, with "The Old Man" driving his Son-in-law Horowitz and the orchestra without mercy...
...supporters of Croatia's quisling Premier, Ante Pavelitch, were deserting to the Chetniks. On the rocks by Croatia's roadsides, on the bricks of Croatian walls, white paint smeared out the Pavelitch slogan: "Jivilo Hrvatska Ustashi!" (Hail Croatia's Revolutionists!). To Nazi-inspired rumors that Dr. Vladimir Matchek, imprisoned leader of Croatia's once-powerful Peasant Party, had been offered the job of Premier to replace Pavelitch, Croats in Ankara cried...
...Heavy, surly-faced Grand Duke Vladimir, 23, who gets a large part of his exercise as pretender to the Romanov throne. A first cousin once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer...
...Grand Duke Vladimir's brother-in-law, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is the eldest living son of the late Crown Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...
...Reverse matter" was first proposed last year as a concept of theoretical physics by Physicist Vladimir Rojansky of Union College. Rojansky suggested that some stars may be made of these reversed atoms...