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Sent back to London in 1956, he regularly gave his Soviet embassy contacts copies of Admiralty documents. He arranged some meetings by drawing a chalk circle on the trunk of a plane tree, others by dialing Kensington 8955 and asking for "Miss Mary." Last May British counterspies finally caught on, and in September he was arrested with 140 photos of Admiralty documents whose exposure, in the court's words, "would gravely damage the State's security...
...Chalk Circles. Son of the Anglican curate of Piccadilly's fashionable St. James's Church, Vassall was a lower-echelon Admiralty clerk with talents so mediocre he had been passed over for promotion seven years running. He was also, said his defense attorney in a plea for mitigation, a man with "a weakness which has been with him ever since he came into this life." His weakness did not get him into real trouble until 1955, when he was with the British naval attache's office in Moscow. At a dinner party arranged by a Pole, Vassall...
...close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath and murmur: "Ah, that is the way I knew him too." Nosed Out by a Girl...
...week, she started off as if she wanted to blast little Miss Moffitt clean off the center court. With her devastating serve and sizzling ground shots, she clipped off the first set, giving up only one game. But then everything came apart. With a series of three neatly placed "chalk" shots-two backhands and a forehand-Billie Jean broke Margaret's service in the second set, went on to win it 6-3. In the final set, the angry Aussie star built up a 4-1 lead, then 5-2. But Billie Jean refused to quit, fought back...
That Old Look. Once his new publishing chain shakes down, Roy Chalk will almost surely want more money. His philosophy is to keep what he buys and look around for more. Just where he will turn next he will not confide, but does admit to a continuing interest in the still struggling New York City transit system. Says he with that pocketa-pocketa look in his eyes: "I'm a patient man, and I'm interested...