Word: jiri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied: "We have hotels in Moscow just as good as the Waldorf-but not as tall...
...good Communist, and an executive of the Czechoslovak Press Bureau, Jiri Hronek continually wondered how the press might be improved. Last week delegates to a Czech newsmen's congress in Prague found that Hronek had worked out a program to make the Czechoslovakian press perfect-in the same sense as the Russian press is perfect. Excerpts from his statement in the Communist weekly Tvorba (Construction) as reported by the Associated Press...
...girls from Jackson, Leslie, Radcliffe, Sargent, and Simmons will also be present at the party, for which music will be provided by the Gold Coasters, an undergraduate orchestra led by Jiri P. Springer...
Undergraduates include Kurt Hertzfeld '42, an Austrian Economics concentrator; Jiri Springer '42 and Walter Robitschek 42, lifelong friends who went to Columbia together before coming to Harvard, Johannes Imhof '42, another Austrian and an Economics student; Thomas Wiener '42, a Czech and a Government concentrator; and Milos Safranek...