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...Linguist. In Detroit, charged with begging, Fred Johnson handed notes to police explaining that he was a deaf mute, but when the judge irritably asked him if he could talk, he proudly replied: "I can speak English, Spanish, German and a little French," got 60 days in jail...
...desk with a Fulbright scholarship to work in Italy at the University of Perugia and the University of Florence. Scholar Hanna, a distant relative of President-Maker Mark Hanna of Ohio, is a young lady working her way up in the newsreporting business. She came to TIME a fluent linguist in German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents and the flow of international news to the magazine. She worked as secretary to Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith...
Joseph Brown Matthews began his career about as far away as possible from the Washington limelight-as a Methodist missionary in Java. He was a brilliant linguist, but his sympathy for Indonesian nationalists made him unpopular with the islands' Dutch masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home...
Handsome, ramrod-straight Air Lieut. General Thomas D. (Tommy) White, 51, was picked to succeed General Twining as vice chief of staff. He is a linguist (five languages), an amateur ichthyologist, a notably competent officer and a good airman, but his most enduring fame stems from a bad landing which he made on a Leningrad airstrip in 1934. As U.S. air attache in Russia, West Pointer White flew Ambassador Bill Bullitt from Mos cow to Leningrad in a two-place Douglas O-38F, found he had no power as he came in to land. The plane hit the runway, nosed...
...Czech capital Jakobson built his reputation as a linguist and his researches resulted in scores of important monographs. He mixed crudite dissertations with vitriolic polemic against the rising Nazi Party. Later, when the Germans invaded his adopted country, Jakobson, who was then living in Brno, became a refugee for the second time. "Few people knew the Germans were going to invade the next morning," he says. "The news was announced on the radio and we left Brno for Prague the same night. This time we didn't walk, however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable...