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Pater Rejected. Bernhard Berenson breathes the air of a world long past. Born in Lithuania, of "the Jewish aristocracy, the old gentry," he grew up in Boston, was working his way through Boston University when haughty, wealthy Mrs. Jack Gardner discovered his talents. She helped him through Harvard in return for his advice on her art collection. Then Bernhard went abroad...
Blonde, buoyant Eva Paul had spontaneous, unaffected gaiety. She also had pretty legs. When the Lithuanian Daily News sponsored a Miss Lithuania contest in 1933, 17-year-old Eva Paul won it, ruled as Queen of Lithuanian Day at the Chicago World's Fair. When her mother and stepfather moved to a farm near Lowell, Ind., Eva slipped easily into the affairs of the town high school. By the time she was graduated in 1935, she was president of the Red Pepper Social Club and had acquired the highest of adolescent accolades-she was a "popular girl...
...male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
...Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forced, at the point of Red Army guns, to join the Soviet Union in 1940. Ever since then, Russia's westward window on the Baltic Sea has been tightly shuttered.* Said one Lithuanian recently: "We don't speak of the Iron Curtain, as that is not a strong enough expression. Our country lies behind the Steel Curtain." From refugees' reports, letters, rumors and official Soviet decrees, a picture of life behind the Steel Curtain can be pieced together...