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Four years ago Baker Bedrich Cech's daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling...
...would be necessary, Bedrich reckoned, to line their traveling space with tar paper, to throw sniffing police dogs off the scent. They would need an escape hatch in the floor of the car, and a system of air vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes at the Austrian border...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Marian Anderson...
...encyclical letter titled Fulgens Corona (The Radiant Crown), Pope Pius XII proclaimed the year 1954 (from December 1953 to December 1954) a Marian Year, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...
...Marian's music has never been in the same style as Jimmy's. Although she can sock out a solid Southern jump when she wants to, she prefers the subtler, post-Dixieland style which aims to "feel" the beat instead of landing on it with both feet. Two years ago she formed her own trio, has been touring and .recording (for Savoy) ever since. Pianist McPartland loves it as much as her doting sidewalk superintendents. Her contented sum-up: "It's just not work...