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...Sieyes replied, "I survived." If Soviet NoveMst llya Ehrenburg were asked about his own activities during the 20-year Stalinist terror, he might well give the same answer. Considering that just about every eminent Russian writer and artist was exiled, executed or hounded to suicide by the paranoid dictator, Ehren-burg's survival is one of the most remarkable literary achievements of modern times...
...outrageous odyssey continues in France and Britain, but Author Ehren burg would have been wise to recognize that satire on those countries is best left to natives. He does better in what the Soviets had taught Roitschwantz to call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking...
...Josephine Fiske '49, Shirley Goldman '49, Marion Hayes '49, Charlotte Horwood '49, Nancy Kane '49, Winifred Libbon '49, Ruth Marshall '49, Frances McDonald '49, Ann Murphy '49, Ruth Reichart '49, Elizabeth Zacharchuk '49, Joan Braverman '50, Nina Emerson '50, Nancy Rodriguez '50, Lucia Toscano '50, Joan Bresnahan '51, Hanni Ehren theil '51, Barbara Fitzgerald '51, and Jean O'Brien...
...tangled with Caltech's brilliant Robert Andrews Millikan, then a young professor at the University of Chicago, who had just isolated and measured the electron. Ehrenhaft said that he himself had isolated electrical particles of various sizes, many of them smaller than the electron. Millikan demolished Ehren-haft's proofs, won the Nobel Prize...
...evening good Coblenzers jammed the Deutsches Eck again. Hoarse with jubilation and flush with beer they stared upward at floodlighted Fortress Ehren-breitstein, went "Aaah!" as rockets and bombshells burst in pyrotechnic brilliance. After the performance busy police turned thousands from the main road home, directed them to a narrow swaying pontoon bridge between Deutsches Eck and the mainland. Came a harplike twanging of strained metal, the bridge lurched, settled in the water. Children screamed, whimpered. Before morning 40 bluish stiff bodies were fished from the yellow waters. Six-year-old Raymond Lawler of Akron. Ohio, went...