Word: jaroslav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found the far end jammed with bricks and fresh mortar...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, the London tennis title-final warmup for Wimbledon -over his Davis Cup teammate, Mervyn Rose, 10-8, 6-2; in London. Doubles winners: the U.S.'s Budge Patty and ex-Czech Jaroslav Drobny over Rose and Australian Don Candy...
...Veteran Jaroslav Drobny, 33, a self-exiled Czech, the French Tennis Championship, over Australia's Frank Sedgman, 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4; in Paris...
...eyed Vladimir Prochazka, who arrived in Washington as Czech Ambassador last August, got bawled out by President Truman* and vanished three months later, was reported back in Prague and in jail. Comrade Prochazka, loyal party member since 1923, seemed to be a victim of guilt by association: his brother, Jaroslav, former chief of the Czech general staff, is suspected of treason...
Others in the competition were Jean W. Lunn '55, soprano; Anthony W. Morss '53, piano; James D. Wood, Sp., clarinet; Nurhan A. Adrian '54 and Shahan A. Adrian '54, piano duo; Jaroslav F. Hulka '52, French horn; Earl C. Ravenal '52 and Sandor S. Shapiro '54, violin duo; Rosemary MacKown '54, piano, and Vernon Head, viola...