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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention the pursuit of happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Tonight's talk will be the first of two delivered by Professor Chafee. He will speak next Wednesday on "Freedom of Speech in the United Nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chafee Speaks About Lewis to Law Forum | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

John Ciardi, assistant professor of English, will be among speakers who will express their opinions on racial equality, religious liberty, and political freedom in America at a "Civil Rights" meeting in the auditorium of the Longfollow School tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ciardi, Others Will Analyze Civil Rights Issues Tonight | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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