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Thus last week did the case of the Soble brothers near its climax. Members of a well-to-do Lithuanian family, they had, according to Jack, been recruited for espionage work around 1940 by Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. He had promised them and 13 relatives safe passage to the U.S. in return for their services. Jack and his wife Myra were arrested in 1957; he admitted his guilt, and in return for turning state's evidence was sentenced to only seven years. Robert, a psychiatrist, was arrested last November and has since kept his silence...
Escape to "Little Italy." The son of a poor Lithuanian bargemaster, Zorach was taken to America when he was four, eventually settled in the "little Italy" district of Cleveland. While his father peddled junk, young William peddled newspapers, quit school at 13, became an apprentice lithographer. He saved his money, got to New York and finally to Paris, where he fell under the spell of the Fauvists (the Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that...
...Loves (M-G-M). Laurence Harvey follows his square Lithuanian jaw right through Shirley MacLaine's bedroom window, grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her hard: "Are you so happy sleeping alone...
According to the U.S. charges, as far back as 1940, Lithuanian-born Robert Soblen and his brother Jack made a bargain with Soviet Secret Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. The deal: both men agreed to come to the U.S. and set up separate spy rings, and Beria in exchange permitted their families-some 15 persons in all-to emigrate with them. Dr. Soblen, the Government charges, procured secret documents of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, information about an "atomic-bomb project on the Northwest Coast," photographs of the Sandia nuclear-weapons development center at Albuquerque-and arranged...
Accompanying Simonov were Yokena , a literary scholar in modern American writing: Vera Panova, whose poetry and prose won Stalin Prizes; and Eduardas B. a Lithuanian writer of and children's books...