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...Pablo is still grasping the wheel of modern art, and most people are still wondering whether the boat is hopelessly lost or merely off on an extended voyage of exploration. This week in Europe, hundreds of dauntless American ladies and their husbands were once again doggedly searching for a first-hand answer...
Polish-born John Czernyha '51 of Kirkland House is also receiving safe grades to hold his scholarship and has no interest in American girls. Czernyha, who hopes to finish a book he is writing on Russian concentration camps (he is a first-hand authority on German ones) this summer, has been engaged for the past year to a girl he met in a Polish DP camp last year, and who is now living in Hartford. Czernyha is working in Hartford this summer and hopes to be married within a month...
Like the NKVD, His Majesty's Foreign Office took little interest in their secretary's love of ancient Samarkand and Bokhara. What delighted them was up-to-date, first-hand information about the Soviet interior that young Maclean shipped home in his reports. Before long they summoned him back to London, rejoicing at having added to the home staff so valuable an expert on Soviet affairs...
...best interests of the Navy and the nation. The Navy's oath, and the government's entire loyalty program, is based on the idea that association with a "subversive" group works against these interests. But it is ridiculous to condemn a man who may be trying to find out first-hand what "subversive" groups are doing, to rule him out as disloyal, for example, because he is interested in sizing up the opposition...
...when, evangelizing at a small Baptist church in Palatka, Fla., he was told that he could not continue the meeting unless he became a Baptist. But his education and upbringing were Calvinist, and his preaching still shows it. Last week he treated his predominantly middle-aged audiences to first-hand glimpses of Heaven, Hell and Judgment...