Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
Gedye was back again after five years. In 1940, home-bound from Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...
Same day Moscow's Red Star jumped on a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Istanbul as "a most stupid invention . . . shocking lie." Retorted the Monitor, which, like all but Russian papers, is kept out of most of the Balkans: "If our Balkan coverage has limitations, we would be glad for permission from the Soviet Government to expand it by placing correspondents [there...
...various European universities. After serving at Strasbourg and Dresden, he joined the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1920, and while there founded and became director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. Leaving Germany upon the arrival of Hitler in 1933, von Mises went to the University of Istanbul, where he taught for six years before coming to Harvard...