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...dignity and a scarlet gown, entered the oak-paneled courtroom of the Old Bailey. He shuffled his papers, impatiently tapped the silver snuff box on his high desk. Then, mounting the stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators...
...Khovanchina for the first time. As the gloomy drama rolled along, at the lumbering pace of a sullen rhinoceros, the audience was sometimes confused by the Russian palace politics, put off by the arthritic English libretto. But gradually the glowing music, which had been expertly edited by able Conductor Emil Cooper, put them in a good mood...
Springfield has outstanding strength in two events; the 440 yard freestyle in which Alvin Malthaner set a New England Intercollegiate record of 4:52.8, and the low board diving, in which Emil Huddleston has gone undefeated this season...
...Catastrophe. Klaus Fuchs (rhymes with books) was born 38 years ago in Russelsheim, Germany. His father, Emil Fuchs, was first a Protestant minister, became a Quaker in 1925. He was a lifelong member of the Socialist Party and a pacifist. During the 1930s the Nazis persecuted the whole family because of the father's Socialism and pacifism. Emil Fuchs spent nine months in a concentration camp. One of Klaus's sisters, a painter, became an active anti-Nazi political worker, helped her husband to escape from Germany, jumped to her death beneath a Berlin subway train after persecution...
Others thought it was good, too. The dance had spread to the U.S. In Manhattan, Tony & Sally de Marco introduced a fancy-dress version at the Plaza Hotel and on the stage of Broadway's Capitol Theater. Bandman Emil Coleman was playing it nightly along with foxtrots, rumbas and sambas for the Waldorf-Astoria patrons...