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...dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above all, there was blushing Liudmila Pavlichenko, 26-year-old Soviet sniperess (in field uniform and boots), whose rifle has ticked off 309 Nazis (TIME, Sept...
...Liudmila Pavlichenko, 26, killer of 309 Germans, reached Washington from Moscow for the International Student Assembly this week. She was brown-eyed, softspoken, good-looking in a boyish way, in the dark green uniform and black boots of a senior lieutenant in the Red Army...
Over ten Harvard representatives are among the 865 student-delegates attending the International Student Assembly at Washington which ends its three-day session today. Delegates from 65 nations, including anti-fascist movements of Germany, Italy, and Japan are highlighted by Senior Lieutenant Liudmila Pavichenko, Russiax army girl sniper who is credited with the death of 809 Germans, and other well-known speakers...
...worst superficialities in Eugene One gin. Tolstoy need not have written the great length of War & Peace to portray the best Russia; his typical common Russian, the soldier Karatasv, stands "an unfathomable, rounded-off and everlasting personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth." Glinka's Ruslan and Liudmila sang the gay folk tunes; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique caught in single chords all the national sadness...
...nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled his nights and days. On the side, he wrote a six-canto poem, Ruslan and Liudmila, many a dangerously political verse. The Tsar's police soon had him under surveillance, but were never able to prove that he was a member of any secret society. And in fact he never was. But his scurrilous verses offended the Tsar, who had him "transferred" (Pushkin was technically...