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Other contributions to the Lion Rampant outdo the mediocrity of Dawson and Littlejohn. Cecile Williamson's "Atlanta" is the most feeble imitation of literature in the magazine. Skirmante Makaitis translated two folk tales from the Lithuanian (apparently into English). One of them, "Stolen Bread," begins...
...Irish Catholic Church in the area. Although Donnelly Field is almost all Catholic, the CRA did not know (perhaps because it did not take the trouble to find out) that the community is organized around two ethnic groups rather than a single religious one. The Donnelly Field Lithuanians accused the CRA of favoritism when nothing was planned for the Lithuanian Catholic Church. The plans were subsequently changed, but the insensitivity had permanently alienated most of the Lithuanians...
Died. Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, Lithuanian-born psychiatrist and Soviet master spy convicted of 20 years of espionage in the U.S.; five days after he gulped down barbiturates in a last desperate gamble to avoid returning to the U.S. and life imprisonment; in London's Hillington Hospital...
...late June, a few days before he was supposed to begin serving a life-imprisonment sentence for wartime espionage on behalf of Russia, New York Psychiatrist Robert Soblen, 61, jumped $100,000 bail and fled to Israel, using a dead brother's Canadian passport to gain entry. A Lithuanian-born Jew, Soblen expected Israel to let him stay, but Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion bent to U.S. pressures and arranged to send Soblen back in the general direction of the U.S. aboard a flight of the government-controlled airline, El Al. As a result of covert but obvious cooperation...
Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold...