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...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...
...Among other Soviet agents who had fled: General Walter G. Krivitsky, who escaped to the West in 1937, and was found shot to death in a Washington hotel room in 1941; Captain Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, 1944; Soviet Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko, whose defection broke up a Canadian spy ring, 1945; Captain Nikolai Khokhlov, assigned to assassinate an anti-Communist Russian in West Germany, last February; and Vladimir Petrov, Soviet spy planted in the Russian embassy in Australia, last April...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. The powerfully fictionalized decline and death of Maxim Gorki, with sidelights on Soviet man, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, July...
Bayreuth had not dared do Tannhäuser since Toscanini's unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When...
Nine years ago Igor Gouzenko walked out of his job as code clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa and into world headlines. From his briefcase Gouzenko produced 109 startling documents which laid bare the Russian atomic espionage network in North America and paved the way to the conviction of British Physicists Klaus Fuchs and Allan Nunn May, the Rosenbergs and half a dozen others who stole allied atomic secrets for the Kremlin. Except for acting as a government witness in numerous spy trials, Gouzenko has since shown himself only with a mask over his head, and lived with...