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...embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked up a Russian girl at a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi. "I brushed up against her," he said. "I apologized. We started talking. She spoke good, if academic, English and there it was." Two months later, Alf Hall and 22-year-old Clara Strumina, student of English (mostly Shakespeare) at the University of Moscow, and daughter of a late army colonel, were married...
First, there was a ceremony in a dark Soviet registry office. Then there was a smart wedding at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Louis, followed by a reception at Clara's home. "There were gallons of vodka," Alf recalls, "and the British and Russians tearfully swore vows of eternal friendship." Less than a year later, Hall was sent back to London. Clara said goodbye at Moscow airport, expecting to get her London visa in a few days. Then & there the trouble began. The Soviet government, which does not like its women to marry foreigners and does...
Hopelessness. Six months later, alone in Moscow, Clara bore a son, who was named Nicholas. Nervously keeping in touch from London as the months went by, Alf Hall watched Moscow's colony of 34 British brides dwindle to six. Eighteen somehow got out of Russia; ten divorced their husbands and melted back into the Russian throng; two would not get divorces, but did not want to go abroad; three simply disappeared. One of these three was kidnaped as she left a movie at the U.S. embassy and was whisked off to prison on unstated charges. Another...
Fitz is free to say what he wants, and this P-D contract provides that he never has to draw a cartoon that doesn't represent his full conviction. In 1936, when the mercurial P-D decided to support Alf Landon, Fitz a resolute F.D.R. man, served notice that he would draw no political cartoons, and drew none. He also stayed away from politics in 1948, when the P-D backed Dewey, but he was hand in hand with the paper again in supporting Stevenson in 1952. His own favorite cartoons are chiefly political. Among them (see cuts...
...Roberts, mused to reporters that in contrast to Democratic five-percenters, Roberts had turned out to be a ten-percenter. Said he: "Perhaps Wes Roberts had to show he could double a Democrat ... His conduct in this transaction was, at the very least, morally outrageous." Aging (65) Alf Landon, a member of the Hall group, charged that Roberts had "made a raid on the public treasury . . . which stinks to high heaven...