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...guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East German youth is now more interested in acquiring blue jeans than party medals...
...himself to his office in a middle-class Opel; Marcus has a Buick and usually does the driving-but he has a chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...
Where will the money come from? The editors are not saying-possibly because they don't yet know. Critic Edmund Wilson, who contributed a sprightly three-page interview with himself in issue No. 2, speculated that the angel might be "one of those Baltic barons" who married a rich American and, now that she has died and left him all her money, "doesn't know what to do with it." Wilson obviously thinks his bogus baron could do worse than to spend it supporting the Review. "God knows that some such thing is needed," said he. "The disappearance...
From Tokyo to Tennessee, from the Baltic to the Bosporus, a killer winter raged across many parts of the world last week. Blizzards and savage winds took 300 lives in Europe, and another 150 in the U.S. A slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons. The thermometer was playing tricks. While Moscow's temperature was 11°, the mercury plummeted to fantastic depths in a broad swath across the U.S.: -19° in Cleveland, -30° in parts of Kentucky...
...northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers and canals froze in The Nether lands, droves of ice skaters turned out, and 50 drowned in a single day. In some places along Europe's Baltic coast, the sea itself was turning...