Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent, the last three and a half years of reporting the news from both sides of the Balkans' gradually lowering Iron Curtain has been an excursion in incongruity. The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists and Low has returned to the U.S. for a breather...
...Low's first-rate reporting job during his tour of duty is perhaps best exemplified by the now historic documents on the Tito-Stalin conflict, which ended in Moscow's excommunication of Marshal Tito. Low managed to get them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program...
...anecdotes, among many, serve to illustrate what Correspondent Low has been up against intrying to get the news of Russia's satellite Balkan countries. During arecent meeting with a Western-educated top official of one of the satellites, they talked in normal conversational idiom until Low asked a leading political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon...
Both pocket and standard billiards will be available for students. On the theory that Harvard and local men do not mix, especially in a pool hall, LaBreck is, for the time being, restricting his establishment to students. In the event of low attendance he will be forced to open to all comers...
Frederick Jagel as King Herod was the only disappointing member of the cast. Neither his singing nor his acting, which consisted of two dizzy pirouettes across the stage, was anywhere near so effective as the performances of other players. But even this "low" would be pretty high in a less extraordinary performance...