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Cypresses was done a year later at Saint-Remy, where Van Gogh was confined in an asylum. Between plunges into the depths of despair. Van Gogh painted brilliantly, and the turbulence of his own spirit is seen in the work of this period...
...Polish U.N. delegate who asked for U.S. asylum...
...least as interesting as the captive MIG was the chubby North Korean pilot who flew it in to win General Mark Clark's $100,000 reward. Soon to be reunited with his mother, who fled North Korea months ago, and assured of asylum in the U.S., Senior Flight Lieut. Noh Keum Suk told air intelligence officers that the Communists had been busily bringing MIGs from Manchuria into North Korea ever since mid-August. Lieut. Noh said that he himself had seen at least 80 partially crated jets rolling south on flatcars. "We made the armistice only to improve...
Once free, Korowicz asked Secretary of State Dulles for asylum in the U.S. (More than 200 other Russian and satellite diplomats have similarly sought safety in the West since 1945.) Then he sent letters renouncing his Polish credentials to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit now president of the General Assembly (see INTERNATIONAL). He wrote: "It is... absolutely impossible for me to collaborate with these representatives-not of my beloved country-but solely of the Soviet regime in Poland...
Patient Wanzig (diagnosis: schizophrenic with suicidal tendencies) operated with remarkable freedom until last month, when police discovered that a nurse at Chicago State had killed herself because she was despondent over her betting losses. The trail led inexorably toward the asylum bookie, who had salted away some $2,000 in the last year by placing $2 to $10 bets for hospital employees and bets of as little as 25? for hard-pressed patients. His outside contact was his girl friend, Dorothy Hughes, 31, who visited him daily at the hospital. Dorothy would phone in Wanzig's bets...