Search Details

Word: hronek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied: "We have hotels in Moscow just as good as the Waldorf-but not as tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodbye Now | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...good Communist, and an executive of the Czechoslovak Press Bureau, Jiri Hronek continually wondered how the press might be improved. Last week delegates to a Czech newsmen's congress in Prague found that Hronek had worked out a program to make the Czechoslovakian press perfect-in the same sense as the Russian press is perfect. Excerpts from his statement in the Communist weekly Tvorba (Construction) as reported by the Associated Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth in Prague | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

| 1 |