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...long as he had Stalin's blessing, Ulbricht neither needed nor wanted close friends. In Moscow's Hotel Lux he enjoyed not only the companionship of his Berlin-born girl friend, Lotte Kuhn,-but also the comfortable knowledge that each purged comrade meant more room for himself as he scrambled toward the top job in Communism's German party. No one cherished leadership more avidly, nor curried favor with the Kremlin more expectantly. When the Hitler-Stalin treaty was signed, Ulbricht dutifully put his pen to work in the pact's support. "Whoever intrigues against...
...made his way to Manhattan, and before long fell in with a group of young men who were all destined to become famous: Stuart Davis, Morris Kantor, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh and Walt Kuhn. It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were...
...secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston and later became good news sources. He also caught the eye of the New York Times's London Bureau Chief Ferdinand Kuhn, who hired Reston for his staff in 1939. It was quite a coup for Scotty Reston, who had been, trying to get a job on the Times for years and had always been turned away at the door...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. To judge from this ancient, improper tale, sexual hanky-panky was much the same in 12th century China as it was in Boccaccio's 14th century Italy...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...