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Until recently the Americanization of Wolf Ladejinsky was a copybook success story. An immigrant, he won an education and renown as a U.S. agricultural expert who helped to stymie the Communists in the Far East. Last week, after 19 years in federal service, he lost his $11,800-a-year job as U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo. "Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky," the Agriculture Department announced, "does not meet technical standards and security requirements . . ." Ladejinsky, 55, a short, intense, scholarly man who puffs a curved pipe, said quietly: "I came to America when I was 22, with no money, no friends...
This year Americans can give more for less. The tax law for 1954 contains three important changes that will enable generous citizens to make larger contributions to church and charity, and Tax Expert Merle H. Miller ticks them off in the Christian Century of Dec. 22. Items...
...expert witness on power-plant sites. SEC called up University of Mississippi Engineering Dean Frederic H. Kellogg, a onetime Panama Canal geologist. Testified Kellogg: "A safe plant could be built at [West Memphis] but . . . foundation soil and river conditions . . . would make the overall substructure costs significantly higher than at other nearby locations." At a press conference, AEChair-man Lewis Strauss defended the site, saying that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the West Memphis site as "a safe place" after surveying 16 proposed locations. But, as it turned out, the Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant...
Witness for the Prosecution (by Agatha Christie) is Broadway's first really bright evening of crime since Dial "M" for Murder. In an age of dwindling stage whodunits (there aren't even many bad ones), the expert Miss Christie has fetched up another of her tidy yarns, tossed in a finely conducted English courtroom trial, and has then, when all is over, overturned it all with not one shattering twist but three...
...Bonnard Harvey of Maryland and Astoria, L.I. crossed tone arms with a connoisseur whose specialty was chamber music. To upset the expert, he arrived one night bearing a gaily wrapped Scheherazade-one of the lushest of full-orchestra scores-"which he had bought at the corner drugstore for well under a dollar. 'Oh, it may have a few reproduction flaws,' he said, 'but this cheap little music-for-the-masses disk contains a flamboyant Scheherazade worthy of your steel.' " The connoisseur was so unsettled that he discussed the lowbrow disk at length, thus shattering his reputation...