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...honor to be described by the League of Nations as "an international menace," then Yasha Katzenberg, 50, is an honorable man. The League so described him last year when U. S. delegates to its committee on narcotics control complained that Japan was supplying Katzenberg's agents with opium and morphine in China for smuggling into the U. S. His dope ring, built up after Repeal spoiled a fine livelihood for him, was reputed to be on a $10,000,000 scale. When Rumania threw him out this year, he was seized in Greece, extradited to the U. S. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Opium and Morphine | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Orchestra there are two onetime army officers who fought on opposite sides during the War. Both are first violinists. One is Hungarian George Beimel, the other Russian Yasha Kayaloff. Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Philadelphians in Pullmans | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

This ignored not only Comrade Stalin's key post as General Secretary of the Communist Party which rules Russia but even his first wife by whom he had an elder son, Yasha, who has grown up to be something of a scapegrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Who's Stalin? | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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