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IT is one of the tokens of our culture that the only films which have yet really shown some deep and mature comprehension of the great human tragedy of our times -- meaning, of course, the vast despoilment of mankind in the wrack of World War II -- have been a few made in Europe.
FOR pure entertainment there is no fender joke in town than "Life With Mother." During an uneventful week on Broadway, I took occasion to revisit it recently in the company of the illustrious Moscow Art Theatre actress.
About 7:45 last Friday evening men and women of more than a score of countries sat down to a banquet in the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astoria. They were delegates to a three-day meeting called the "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace."
An end to the suspense of some legislative matters created a more hopeful attitude in financial circles last week. The softness which has permeated the economy, in the form of price cuts, unemployment and slow-downs, continued to spread as the stock market alternated widely in interpreting them.
AINTREE, England, March 26 -- An unsung 9-year-old gelding named Russian Hero jumped like a stag today to capture the 103d Grand National Steeplechase in a runaway finish.
1949Elisheva Bikhovski, Israeli-Russian poet (born 1888)[†]
Elisheva Bikhovski was a Russian and Israeli poet, writer, literary critic and translator, often known simply by her adopted Biblical Hebrew name "Elishéva". Her Russian Orthodox father, Ivan Zhirkov, was a village teacher who later became a bookseller and textbook publisher; her mother was descended from Irish Catholics who had settled in Russia after the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Elisheva wrote most of her works in Hebrew, and also translated English and Hebrew poetry into Russian.