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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ivan is not only Yale '47, ex-U.S. Navy and grandson of the late John Jacob Astor; he is also the spiritual heir of a hundred proud Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Over the Hurdle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Wind in the Willows. The U.S. in the age of Jackson was so raw, tetchy and snarling-proud that its "desire for approbation" and "delicate sensitiveness under censure" constituted "a weakness which amounts to imbecility." Other nations, said Mrs. Trollope, were "thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have, apparently, no skins at all; they wince if a breeze blows over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Dutch seem much warmer hearted and less materialistic than their hard-currency neighbors, the Belgians. Most of the Dutch I met this summer were very eager to talk to foreigners, and interested in America. They were cheerful, extremely proud of their country, and loved to talk...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Social Notes From All Over: Students Abroad | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...Confidence. Just how good was the Navy's case? Obviously, the plain speech of patriotic men could not be dismissed as the whimpering of a proud service which now saw itself reduced to a second line of defense. It was clear that the Navy deeply distrusted Secretary of Defense Johnson, who had fathered the big-bomber program when he was Assistant Secretary of War before World War II, and had summarily canceled the Navy's supercarrier without consulting the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Revolt of the Admirals | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Then, in the tiny (550 seats) auditorium of the Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Program | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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