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...death penalty), he did not bother to change his name, got married, had three children, and set up a thriving tourist-excursion service, first in Rio, then in São Paulo. His wife recalls no threats, no enemies. She does remember a recent acquaintance who called himself Anton Künzle and cabled Cukurs from Montevideo last Feb. 19, asking him to fly there...
...etymology of letkiss, a word that will some day surely give fits to footnoters for the Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles. The rhythms of letkiss are adapted from an old Finnish round dance called letkajenka, first popularized in Paris last December through a recording by Finnish Bandleader Anton Letkiss. Somewhere between the predawn unpronounceableness of letkajenka and the similarity of Anton's surname, letkiss emerged. To a lipstick-smeared man, Münchners are convinced that because of its nearly English name, letkiss is yet another happy American import...
Never Twice. The Pitman-Moore vaccine offers a way out of the dilemma. After nurturing scores of "generations" of Enders' bug, Dr. Anton J. F. Schwarz now grows the final product in cultures of cells from virus-free eggs. When injected into a child, it causes no rash or fever; the Public Health Service's hypercritical Division of Biologies Standards is satisfied that the vaccine contains no contaminating viruses. New York University's Dr. Saul Krugman reports that 2½ years of testing indicate that one injection confers just as solid immunity as the natural disease. "That means it should...
...Judge worked as a boy on his grandmother's ranch, earned a law degree from the University of Texas and learned practical law from his uncle, Anton N. Moursund, who at 88 is still a respected circuit judge in San Antonio. After 42 months' duty as an Air Force staff sergeant in World War II, A. W. set up practice in Johnson City. He also gradually expanded his inherited lands into a millionaire's fortune...
...Stadium. The Dominican Republic will probably win it, of course, but Americans can always cry on the shoulders of the Japanese. Last week, for the first time in Olympic history, judo was on the calendar. The Japanese took three gold medals. But a 6-ft. 5-in. Dutchman named Anton Geesink won the open championship, and the U.S., which got its first real introduction to judo on Guadalcanal, won a bronze medal when Virginia's Jim Bregman wound up third in the middleweight class...