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...defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Guilty of Spying | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...police found New Zealand passports in the Krogers' effects. But soon fingerprints told a different story. From the FBI in Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played guard on Monroe High's championship 1927 football team. Teammates remembered him as "Unc," for his likeness then to Uncle Walt of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Unc Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Secrets of the Deep | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Scientific prayer is indispensable to world peace, a prominent Christian Scientist declared last night in Paine Hall. Mrs. Lona Koch-Meisen, whose talk was sponsored by the Christian Science Organization at Harvard, is a member of the Board of Lectureship of Boston's First Church of Christ the Scientist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Koch-Meisen Calls Knowledge, Prayer Means to End War | 1/15/1960 | See Source »

Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Secret World | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...childless couple, Charles E. Dameron and his wife Lona were delighted when in 1955 they were able to adopt an eight-month-old German orphan. Dori, a bright-eyed blonde, was duly examined by German authorities, found to be normal, was sent to live with the Damerons in their $19,000, three-bedroom home in suburban Silver Spring, Md. As Dori grew older, Dameron prepared her for a delightful surprise: she would soon, he told her one day, have a baby brother to play with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Avoiding a Risk | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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