Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lothian was feeling the strain. As knowledge of the extent of the French collapse swept over the diplomatic colony, feeling was summed up in a phrase: "Now there is only one Ally." As Lord Lothian drove to the State Department he passed the Czech Legation, where sad-looking Minister Vladimir Hurban still lives. Next door to it the old Austrian Legation was gone, its Minister now a Georgetown University professor and his wife the local representative of a dress company. The Danish Legation, which moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government...
...never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music of NBC Staff Composer Tom Bennett, canned on a sound track...
...others: Austria's Edgar Prochnik, Czecho-Slovakia's Vladimir Hurban, Poland's Count Jerzy Potocki, Albania's Faik Konitza...
...antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
...more self-conscious than the Austro-Hungarian colony in the U. S. are the White Russians. Some 12,000 of them pine for restoration of a Tsar in the person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious names-Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Prince Matchabelli, Vadim Makaroff, the marrying Mdivanis. Mostly they have spent the last 22 years toasting the old days. Though White legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet...