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...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...
...Arrived this week: Jaroslav Konvalinka and Karel Truksa, engineer and dispatcher, respectively of the Czech train which made a dash for freedom across the border into Western Germany (TIME, Sept. 24). At the invitation of Lawrence Cowen, president of Lionel Corp., they will settle with their families in Irvington, N.J., work in Lionel's toy-train plant...
Over hilly Sudetenland and the spires of Prague, thousands of white paper leaflets fluttered down. Each night for four nights 2,000 plastic balloons spilled out 2,000,000 leaflets. That was the way the people of Red Czechoslovakia got the real story last week of how Locomotive Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka raced his Prague-Asch "freedom train" across the Czech border into Germany (TIME, Sept...