Word: consulation
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...Kattman" and discussing religious subjects in medical language.) Exactly three years from the day he was interned, Bishop Berggrav escaped with the aid of his chief guard (TIME, May 7). He boarded a train for Oslo, got off a few stations before the city, was met by Swedish Consul Leif Öhrvall. The consul drove Berggrav (this time hiding behind a false mustache) directly through Oslo to a hiding place. Next day the church underground sent him a detailed report of the profane rage which Jonas Lie (Quisling's police chief) was suffering over Berggrav's escape...
...concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky; the vagaries of short wave kept the WTAG audience from hearing his "Dear...
Born in Osaka, Japan, Dooman lived in the Orient for over 30 years and is well steeped in the customs, manners, and reasoning of our enemy. He became a member of the United States Embassy at Tokyo and after many years of service rose to the post of Chief Consul in 1937, a position directly under Ambassador Joseph C. Grew...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth White, 59, onetime Princess Der Ling, lady-in-waiting to China's Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi, first high-born Chinese woman to marry a foreigner (Thaddeus White, U.S. Vice Consul at Shanghai); after being run down by a truck; in Berkeley, Calif. Daughter of a Manchu ambassador to France, Princess Der Ling, in America, lectured to eager audiences, wrote reminiscences of Chinese royalty (Son of Heaven, Jades and Dragons), taught Chinese at the University of California...
...easier said than done. State Department officials having heard that the Brazilian wanted to bring a female companion with him stalled over granting the necessary priorities. Conductor Werner Janssen fumed. So did the Brazilian Consul at Los Angeles. So did the Southern California Council on Inter-American Relations. Finally, at 2 o'clock on the day he was scheduled to arrive, Pan American Airways made an extra place on the plane, and Villa-Lobos and the lady were on the way. When they got to Los Angeles last week, a nervous official welcoming delegation was relieved when Villa-Lobos...