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Mathematics Teacher. Senator McCarthy's committee was investigating the Voice of America, but among its witnesses was Czech-born Julius H. Hlavaty, the present chairman of the mathematics department at the Bronx High School of Science. Dr. Hlavaty was testifying because he had delivered a broadcast for the Voice in 1949. At that time, said he, he was not a Communist, nor is he one today. But was he one in 1948? And had he tried to recruit students to the party in that year? Teacher Hlavaty refused to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Witnesses | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Secret Kept. A month later, Gavenda, veteran of 30 border crossings, dragged the exhausted Bures across the frontier into the safety of West Germany. They brought to U.S. Intelligence the first news that John Hvasta of Hillside, N.J., a Czech-born naturalized American had jumped bail. Hvasta had been snatched from his job in the U.S. consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Where Is Johnny Hvasta? | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker. Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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