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Wollweber's first journey to Moscow was, like almost everything in his career, dramatic and violent. Unable to cross Poland, which was then at war with Russia, he and a colleague signed on a North Sea trawler. They smuggled a band of Communists aboard and hid them in the fish tank. At sea, the Trojan horse was opened, the armed Reds seized the trawler's officers and sailed into Murmansk. (The shipping company afterwards billed the Soviet government for the trawler; the bill was paid without a murmur.) In Moscow, Comrades Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin gave Wollweber...
...group was rent by a minor civil war: eight of the men were murdered by their companions; the others were held in thrall by a dictatorial seaman named Ichiro, who threatened death to anyone trying to escape. When the U.S. Marines took over the island in 1945, the Japanese hid in the hills. Letters from home, dropped obligingly on the beach by the U.S. Navy, told them the war was over and urged them to come home, but the Japanese refused to surrender...
...shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
...Papa was no killjoy. He was often in the mood for pranks. "Once we were all going bathing, and we girls and Papa hurried on ahead and hid in the hollow, and when Mamma, Auntie and Strakhov were passing Papa set up a howl like a wolf, to frighten them, but spoiled it all because he said,'Now all howl,' so loudly...
...Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half a dozen other run-of-the-mill prisoners-on his way to a federal prison...