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Died. Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff, 66, one of the art world's most engaging innovators and TIME cover artist (see Publisher's Letter); of a heart attack; in Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris...
Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...certain that the book (75,000 copies in print before publication) will sell like blini. Author Thompson's humor is becoming strained, but whenever the text sags, the illustrations more than make up for it; Artist Knight has provided the most arresting views of Moscow since Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (was great turn-of-century painter). All in all, is possible here to have fun with Eloise, in former days little girl, now diplomat...
Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad...
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...