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...astonished operator was dubious but promised to try. Twenty minutes later, she had Oistrakh on the line. Philadelphia-born Correspondent Shenker tried the violinist in four languages, including his dimly remembered college (University of Pennsylvania '47) Russian. But he got nowhere until, on a hunch, he switched to Yiddish. That did it. Since then, Shenker has toured the Scandinavian countries with Oistrakh, and met him again in New York to report this week's story (see Music). FOR his first TIME cover, Vienna Born Artist Henry Koerner whose life and works are well known to TIME-readers, went...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side came a Yiddish-speaking frontiersman named Duvid Crockett (Mickey Katz; Capitol), who has also sold more than 200,000 disks...
...tireless and ingenious lawyers, the Reader's Digest Killers (as they came to be known), ran through the whole book of the law, got nine stays of execution. One of their appeals was based on a paragraph in a Reader's Digest article which told how a Yiddish-speaking cop was stationed near the defendants at their trial to eavesdrop as they spoke to each other...
...years Harry Lev has been confounding his competitors as much as he confused the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He can speak seven languages (English, Polish, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian), but he can neither read nor write English. He organized his own capmaking firm with $500 capital in 1925, only two years after he arrived in the U.S. from Russia. He worked day and night, soon found out how to get contracts. Now he is worth more than...
...Always disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands, The Great Fair is a charmingly apt epitaph for the Yiddish Mark Twain...