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...getting so that Red Boss Ulbricht could not trust anyone, not even the "deserving workers" and "reliable" intellectuals who are given special benefits, such as vacation trips abroad. When 354 of these well-treated East Germans arrived in Casablanca on the East German cruise ship Fritz Heckert, 23 of the honored passengers and a ship's officer defected by wandering off into the city's winding alleyways. The captain flashed word of the escapes to his headquarters in Rostock, got back cabled orders: INTENSIFY IDEOLOGICAL WORK ON BOARD. But stepped-up propaganda lectures were no solution; when...
...than "international." and he himself is a prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...
Princeton had never had a Percy Haughton or a Walter Camp, as did Harvard and Yale, but it found a memorable pair of coaches in "Fritz" Crisler and Charlie Caldwell in the 30's and 40's. And during this period, Tiger teams improved while Harvard slowly declined and fell into the Great Depression of 1949 and 1950, when it lost all but two of 17 games...
...child, Julie Harris avoided the stylized ingenuousness that has almost become her trademark. Roddy McDowall was the subtle Judas in peon's tags who follows the priest through his furtive journeys and ultimately betrays him. There were other stars-Mildred Dunnock. Keenan Wynn, Thomas Gomez, Martin Gabel, Fritz Weaver, Patty Duke -for even the lesser supporting roles...
...appreciates the Review's obvious attempt to achieve catholicity-issue one includes poetry, fiction, Mr. Hagen's essay, and even some art work. And of the poetry, Mr. Fritz Eager's verse is quite handsome indeed, and Mr. Henry Lowell Mason III's translations of The Twelve is most impressive...