Seldes, Gilbert Vivian (03 January 1893–29 September 1970), critic and writer, was born in Alliance, New Jersey, the son of George Sergei Seldes, a pharmacist, and Anna Saphro, who died when Gilbert was three. His only sibling, George Seldes, became a distinguished journalist known for his coverage of European affairs between the world wars. Their father, a freethinker of Russian Jewish descent, sought to convert his farm into an anarchist utopian colony. When that did not succeed, he entered the drugstore business. He enjoyed friendships with ...
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Seldes, Gilbert Vivian (1893-1970), critic and writer
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Gilbert Seldes Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1932. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LOT 12735, no. 1019 P&P).
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Spivak, Lawrence (1900-1994), publisher and producer of radio and television programs
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Spivak, Lawrence (11 June 1900–09 March 1994), publisher and producer of radio and television programs, was born Lawrence Edmund Spivak in New York City, the son of William Benjamin Spivak, a manufacturer of dresses and nurses’ uniforms, and Sonja Bershad. Spivak’s earliest experiences were mercantile as well as reportorial. After working for the ...
