Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had confiscated them at the time of the revolution. Many had belonged to an art-loving Moscow grain merchant named Serge Stchoukine. When the magnate's daughter Irene Stchoukine, who now lives in Paris, started legal proceedings to get back what she considers her rightful inheritance, the Iron Curtain clanged down. One day last week a little black truck sped up to the gallery door, loaded all the disputed Picassos aboard and whisked them off to the Soviet embassy. There, the paintings were back on Soviet soil, where Heiress Stchoukine has no more chance of collecting than...
...being outdone. He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate Fulvio Morganti is down for a Utrillo; Financier Adriano Seabra gave a Titian...
...Viet Nam is rich in rubber, tin, zinc, iron and coal; it has a notable surplus of rice, and a strategic 1,200-mile coastline. Viet Nam is the prize, the arena where the French and the Viet Minh have contended for the past eight years...
...relatives and friends in East Germany. Since 1948, RIAS has put on the air the names of more than 50,000 missing persons-mostly children, D.P.s or P.W.s-and received 91,700 letters. Last week RIAS and Suchdienst announced that they had found their 5,000th missing person behind the Iron Curtain-a lost son who had been reported missing in action at Stalingrad eleven years...
...After the war, Hoettl promoted a villa for himself in Alt-Aussee, near Salzburg, by lining up ex-SS informants for the U.S. Army's CIC or Counter-intelligence Corps. The Army dropped him in 1949. He claims to have intelligence contacts behind the Iron Cur tain, and was arrested in 1953 because of his connections with suspected Soviet spies. But later Hoettl was released with out charges. He now supports the neo-Nazi VDU Party because, he says, it is the nearest thing to a sensible rightist party in Austria...