Word: zarubin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russia's Ambassador Georgy Zarubin was ushered into the White House at 11:30 a.m. last Wednesday to keep his well-heralded appointment with the President. A moment later, standing before Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles, he began reading off Marshal Bulganin's invitation to a 20-year nonaggression pact between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., pausing at the end of each sentence so the interpreter could translate...
...Iron Curtain has long piqued Frederick C. Schang Jr.. president of Columbia Artists Management Inc., who thought the Soviet stars would make a smash hit in the U.S. if they could only be coaxed away from home at the "psychological moment." In 1939 he dickered with Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
...blew cold until, about a year ago, the Soviets joined UNESCO. That, decided Schang, meant a major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said...
...promotion scheme." But last week she announced that the Communists were for giving her at last. In Washington she called a press conference, sponsored by the party-line Progressive Party, blithely reported that she had been entertained at an "excellent" lunch by Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Georgy N. Zarubin, who personally assured her that she was welcome back in Russia any time she could get a U.S. passport...
...matched fellow travelers of the week: unflaggingly anti-Communist Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Georgy N. Zarubin, both bound for Moscow. The two flew on a Pan American World Airways plane from New York to Paris, then proceeded separately after each indignantly denied that he knew the other was to be a flight buddy at take-off time...