The Israeli mission here last night gave a reception to Moscow’s diplomatic colony in honor of Mrs. Golda Myerson, retiring Israeli Minister to the Soviet Union who is scheduled to return soon to Tel Aviv to take UP her duties as Minister of Labor in the now Israeli Cabinet.
Among the 200 guests who attended the reception in the mission’s new head garters were Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Fedor Gusev, Gen. Saayev, liaison officer of the Soviet armed forces and Soviet Foreign Ministry officials in charge of Near East affairs. Foy D. Kohler, U.S. charge d’affaires here, also attended. The British Embassy was not represented although London’s Ambassador and his staff had been invited.
The winners of the annual Stalin prizes for outstanding work last year in science and in the arts include a number of Jews, it was reported here today. Among these are Prof. G.A. Grinberg and Prof. Leonid V. Kantarovich, each of whom received 100,000-ruble awards.
A prize of 100,000 rubles was also conferred on a group headed by Abram Room for creation of the film, “Court of Honor.” This group includes A.P. Stein, screen-writer, and A. Y. Halperin, cameraman. Other Jewish recipients of the Stalin prizes this year are Samuel Marshall, poet; Edward Tise, movie photographer; two film directors named Katsman and Reisman; Mark Reizen, opera singer; M.A. Minkus, architect; and four inventors–Lev Zakheim, Samuel Zilberglit, Isaac Faibisovich and Iosif ##idlander.
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