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...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
Above all, Georg Dertinger was a man who survived. He prided himself on stepping out of the ashes, unscarred, adjusting his monocle and going on. He not only got along well while his country almost perished, he profited by its convulsions...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
...Russians, Georg Dertinger met his match. The Russians, who had bought him so cheaply, knew his worth. One night, 17 months ago, State Security Police arrested him, and five others, including both of his mistresses. They were accused of spying for the West and of plotting to overthrow the Red government. Last week the verdict was announced. One mistress got three years' sentence; the other, an eleven-year term. Georg Dertinger: 15 years' hard labor...
...substitute Halda, the clerk who sold it to Helander reported that the bishop had quite a time selecting it, examining serial numbers and comparing the typing with that on a piece of paper he had brought with him. He also gave his name as "Georg Arvidsson from Sodertalje." Helander's explanation for the assumed name: he was shy by nature, and anyway, "we human beings don't all act like rational machines...