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  • 31FREED (originally Grossman), ARTHUR — (1894–1973), U.S. popular lyricist and producer of motion picture musicals. Freed was born in Charleston, S.C., and grew up in Seattle, Wash. He was a piano player for the music publishers Waterman, Berlin, and Snyder (see Irving berlin ), toured …

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  • 32KACZÉR (originally Katz), ILLÉS — (1887–1980), Hungarian author and journalist. Born in Szatmár, Kaczér began his career in provincial journalism before starting to write for Budapest newspapers. He made his name as a novelist and playwright, and his dramas enjoyed considerable… …

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  • 33Fly Away (originally titled Corrinne May) — Fly Away is the first album by Corrinne May, released in 2001 by Corrmay Gourmet Music. It was subsequently released by Yellow Music (M M) in Singapore, released by the Major Chord label in Japan and by Forward Music in Taiwan and Hong Kong in… …

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  • 34BAR-LEV (Originally Brotzlewsky), HAIM — (1924–1994), eighth chief of staff of the IDF and Israeli politician; member of the Ninth to Twelfth Knessets. Bar Lev was born in Vienna, and immigrated to Palestine in 1939 from Yugoslavia. In 1942 he graduated from the Mikveh Israel… …

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  • 35DASSAULT (originally Bloch), DARIUS PAUL — (1882–1969), French army officer, born in Paris. Dassault graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1903 and joined the army, serving in artillery units and at the general headquarters of the French army in the Near East during World War I.… …

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  • 36GÁBOR (originally Lederer), IGNÁC — (1868–1944), Hungarian philologist. Born in Abaujkomlos, Gábor studied at the Budapest rabbinical seminary and at the universities of Budapest and Paris, where he specialized in Semitic and Indo European philology. His research was confined… …

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  • 37GARY (originally Kacew), ROMAIN — (1914–1980), French novelist. Gary, who was of mixed parentage, part Cossack and Tartar, part Jew to use his own phrase, was born in Vilna. When he was seven, his family moved to Poland and finally, in 1926, to Nice. He was a fighter pilot in the …

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  • 38HAEZRAḤI (originally Brisker), YEHUDA — (1920–1974), Hebrew novelist and playwright. Born in Jerusalem, he served in the British Army during World War II. He wrote several novels and plays, as well as numerous articles and sketches. Haezrahi s works include Ke Zel Over (1946), a novel; …

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  • 39HEVESI (originally Hoffman), SANDOR — (1873–1939), Hungarian stage director, playwright, and translator. After graduating from the University of Budapest, Hevesi became a teacher but he soon turned to the theater and in 1902 was appointed stage director of the Budapest National… …

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  • 40KARS (originally Karpeles), JIŘÍ — (1882–1945), painter and graphic artist. Kars was born into a German family in Kralupy, Bohemia. After travels in Spain and Portugal he settled in Paris in 1907. After the Nazi occupation in 1940, he escaped to Switzerland. Kars experimented in… …

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