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...Girl from Cracow. The cream was made by a Hungarian doctor and sold in Cracow, Poland, where Helena Rubinstein was born, the eldest of eight daughters. At 18, she went to Australia to visit relatives, carrying some of the cream with her; she soon saw that windburned Australian ranch wives provided a market. She rented a Melbourne shop, sold $100,000 worth of the cream her first year, and bought the Hungarian's formula. She moved to London, opened a second salon, soon opened shops in Paris and New York...
Poland. "We have so many coal mines, yet coal is rationed," wrote a Polish housewife last month to Radio Warsaw. "Where is it all going?" Warsaw's answer: "For the great constructions of Socialism"-i.e., Red army steel and munitions plants. The Poles had other troubles. Cracow's Communist Echo grumbled that "not even State [haberdashers] can conceal sleeves of different lengths, bursting seams, ill-fitting collars, missing buttons." Polish children go hungry. The potato supply, wrote Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu last month, is only 40% of the quota; since then, spuds have become even scarcer...
...Cracow to Kilimanjaro. When the Red armies slogged in to "protect" Eastern Poland in 1939, Jan Olechny was sure the Russians would take action against antiCommunists. One chilly morning he said goodbye to his wife and twelve-year-old son Riszard, set out with a knapsack to walk through the lines and join some cousins in German-held Cracow...
...Premier, rejected Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive no, the Socialists rejected Gomulka's suggestion...
...Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...