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Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world...
Said Frank De Marco, one of Vlahos' painters: "Those Russians used to get everybody from the top man to the cook to decide on the color of the paint . . . We'd go ahead and paint. As soon as we'd finished, they'd come around poking their fingers at it and say, 'No good, no good.' They'd find a little pimple on the wall or a small dig. We were supposed to do it over for nothing . . . We painted 15 or 16 rooms, and they wanted it done over again. We just...
What really bothered Employee De Marco, however, were the working conditions. "They had guards on us all the time . . . They went with us when we ate, when we got a drink of water; they even followed us into the toilet . . . One of the guards could talk English pretty good. He always used to say we shouldn't take offense. This guarding wasn't personal, he said. He used to say, 'We can't trust no one, not even ourselves...
Vlahos' men got pretty tired of Russian propaganda, too. Says De Marco: "Russia .was the greatest country, it had the greatest army, its soldiers were the toughest . . . They sure got mad, though, when the Russians lost the Olympics. One of them fellows told me if he was at the Olympics he woulda beat them Russian athletes with a whip. Can you beat that...
...These people," pondered Painter De Marco last week, "they're very funny. I never had anything against the Russian people. But when you get in there with them like that, you get to thinking how you'd like to kick the hell out of them...