Word: lithuanian
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...remote corner of Maine or some other place and all the editors in New York are suddenly demanding immediate action of other projects. By quick thinking and an superb telephone manner, she manages to tie all the loose ends together." Ann's knowledge of languages (Lithuanian, Russian. Polish and Back Bay American) is often brought into play. Says Wylie: "The most memorable time was when we met the first D.P. ship to dock in Boston. I stood by helplessly while Ann interviewed the new Americans, who were overjoyed to hear an American speaking their language." According to one correspondent...
...Lithuanian doctor-farmer, Mykolas Devenis, was shipped to an Arctic labor camp after spending a year in prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores...
...invasion route on the Ninety-Nine Hills beyond Indo-China's Bacninh, the men of the Legion's 3rd Regiment-the most decorated unit in the French army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring the anchor tattooed on his left...
...seldom exciting. Australian-born Elaine Fifield, sometimes touted as the heiress apparent to the senior ballet's Margot Fonteyn, showed off flawless timing and technique. But at 21 she lacks the fire, brilliance and riveting personality that distinguish a prima ballerina from a principal dancer. Lithuanian-born Co-Star Svetlana Beriosova had elegance and style, but not the breathtaking precision of either Fonteyn or the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief. The male dancers were strong, but none yet looked like another Eglevsky (New York City Ballet) or another Youskevitch (Ballet Theatre...
...Eastern Europe. In Russia, Rumania, Albania and the Baltic countries (now part of the Soviet Union), the hierarchy has been virtually wiped out. In the other Iron Curtain countries, it has been badly crippled. Russian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, imprisoned since 1927, is either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac) are under house arrest...