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...editions. Until now, European clients of the home edition placed their ads through their U.S. subsidiaries. The man who will head TIME'S first European ad office, which will be located in Zurich and operate Europe-wide, is Hermann Hirzel who, being a Swiss, is fluent in several languages. The new office will provide advice and counsel to new accounts, especially those without representation in the U.S., and solicit advertising for the national and regional editions of TIME...
...Warsaw suburb of Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Chopin. A child prodigy, he was packed off to Berlin at seven to study violin with the renowned teacher Carl Flesch, five years later entered the Sorbonne. The day after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Szeryng volunteered for the Polish Army. Fluent in seven languages, he was assigned to the Polish government-in-exile in Great Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home for 4,000 people displaced by the war, he was "stunned at the generosity of the Mexican people...
When a change of this kind occurs in one of our bureaus, there is almost always a steady-as-she-goes man on deck who provides continuity as well as expertise. In New Delhi this is James Shepherd, an Indian by birth, upbringing and education, fluent in Hindi and Bengali, a working newsman since 1946 who has been reporting Indian affairs for TIME since 1953. With the reporting of Kraar, Zim and Shepherd (as well as some colorful asides from Indian Photographer T. S. Satyan, who spent two hours on the sacred waters of the Ganges to take...
...Turkish trial took longer, but Baldwin was again found guilty, and sentenced to ten months in jail, to be followed by 2½ years of banishment. In jail, Baldwin learned to speak fluent and colloquial Turkish, and was so useful an inmate that he was often given the jail keys when the jailer had chores to be done in the town. At the end of his term he was given a going-away party by both prisoners and jailers...
...talent superior even to Montoya's. Seated next to the professor, casual and happy, she presented a picture of slightly stupid innocence. As her torture increased so did the variety of her facial and bodily expressions of boredom, pain and outrage. Her delivery, like Montoya's, was nuanced and fluent. This is especially important in performing Ionesco, since most of the playwright's humor is based on his genius for distorting or exaggerating the phrases and rhymes of everyday conversation...