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Until a few years before the Bolshevik Revolution, it appears, herds of aurochs roamed the fictional forest of Kratovits, a great feudal estate in Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...
...warm West Indies and, on the solemn advice of a practical joker, shipping a large quantity of coal to Newcastle. The warming pans were used as ladles in a sugarmaking factory and for frying fish; the mittens were snapped up by another trader and rushed to the Baltic. Dexter's coal reached Newcastle in the middle of a coal strike; his profits were "enormous." Most memorable, however, is his treatise, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, which is unpunctuated throughout but in later printings contains a page of mixed punctuation marks for the reader to insert wherever he pleases...
Tracking down young "gulls" (Baltic word for the trade), "glories" (Poznan's description), "artists" (in Cracow) and "debris girls" (in Warsaw, where many practice their trade in dilapidated, damaged houses), earnest Investigator Lastik found only 5% of Warsaw's prostitutes prospering, although his figures do not include "society ladies, presumptuous divorcees and widows with a nice flat and a telephone who are visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested...
Death Revealed. Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk, 65, Soviet engineer; cause of death, unreported; in Moscow. Though little known outside Russia, as director of such mammoth enterprises as the White Sea-Baltic Canal (opened in 1933), the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937), and the Volga-Don Canal (1952), he was the boss of the biggest projects built by forced labor since the Great Wall of China...
...almost twelve years Russia and its Baltic neighbor, Sweden, have been in a bitter dispute over the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, a slender, balding Swedish-legation attache who was picked up by Russian secret police in Budapest near the end of World War II. When the NKVD drove him off to Marshal Malinovsky's headquarters on Jan. 17, 1945, Wallenberg said: "I'm going to Malinovsky's . . . whether as a guest or prisoner I do not know yet." Those were the last words ever heard from...