Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Round-faced Robert B. Jung, 34, the founder of Good News, is a Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung...
Miss Parsons, who visited friends in Prague, felt that Christmas traditions in the United States and in Czechoslovakia are essentially the same except that the Czech people go in for more caroling and more eating. "For Christmas dinner we had turkey, fish, cabbage, candy, cakes, wine, and more cakes, followed by a series of afternoon tea parties and more cakes,' 'she said...
...good Communist, and an executive of the Czechoslovak Press Bureau, Jiri Hronek continually wondered how the press might be improved. Last week delegates to a Czech newsmen's congress in Prague found that Hronek had worked out a program to make the Czechoslovakian press perfect-in the same sense as the Russian press is perfect. Excerpts from his statement in the Communist weekly Tvorba (Construction) as reported by the Associated Press...
Last week, at Paris' 35th automobile "salon," in the huge, ugly Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about...
...home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...