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...wife, the Soviet Army's Colonel Wanda Wasilewska, was to have accompanied her husband, but remained in Kiev fighting a cold...
Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomolets, 65, director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology at Kiev, discoverer of the anti-reticular cytotoxic serum ("ACS"), Which he thought might make people live to 150 by stimulating the connective tissues of the human system, but which, as a heart-disease sufferer, he could not use himself (TIME, June 17); in Kiev...
...when the Kiev massacres drove him from Russia (with his wife and six children), he found that fame had preceded him. When he reached New York, even Mark Twain came calling. Twain's opening remark: "I've been anxious to meet you for a long time, because people have been telling me I'm the American Sholom Aleichem...
...laboratory amid the ruins of Kiev, reporters found Professor Alexander A. Bogomolets, the prophet of longevity, to be a thin, stooped, wizened and "incredibly wrinkled" man of 65. "Normally a man should live to the age of 150 years," twinkled Bogomolets. "That is, if he starts to use my serum when his connective tissues begin to deteriorate, and takes reasonable care of himself...
Pigs & Dignity. Russian officials more than fulfilled their promise to give the UNRRA mission full freedom of movement and inspection in carrying out the $189 million relief program. In fact, Russian solicitude was sometimes embarrassing. A Ukrainian peasant and his wife, assigned to clean the mission's Kiev offices, parked a pig in the garden. Officials thought this an affront to UNRRA's dignity, ordered the pig removed. The UNRRA workers said they did not mind the pig. The officials insisted. So the peasant gave the legal two weeks' notice, walked out with his wife...