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...thin, small, birdlike man, peering through heavy horn-rimmed glasses, was presented to reporters in West Berlin last week as the biggest spy catch in years. His name: Siegfried Dombrowski. His former job: deputy chief of East Germany's military espionage organization, innocently called "Administration for Coordination." Dombrowski, 42, told newsmen he had defected "several months ago," and brought with him long lists of agents and dispatches that he had turned over to the "proper Western authorities." The total East German apparatus, he declared, involved control of 60,000 agents, with 13,000 of his own agents working undercover...
Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
Dorothy Baker, whose Young Man with a Horn (TIME, June 6, 1938) looked steadily at a great jazzman, and Edward Hoagland, who lighted up the life of the circus in Cat Man (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). They too were first novels, and they too dealt with character in unfamiliar surroundings...
Next afternoon a Communist junk pulled close inshore to the Macao waterfront and, through a bull horn, a Red official explained the shooting. He said "eight American and Chiang Kai-shek spies" had been executed. Macao residents, who had seen but three men die, could only conclude that the rattled Reds were unsure just how much of their riot-breaking had been observed...