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...Long." The Potsdamer Platz was the vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian...
Three hours and ten minutes after Schoolteacher Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina plunged from the Soviet consulate in Manhattan last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), television station WPIX was on the air with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd...
...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...
Warsaw's Atlantic Theater was jammed. Patiently the audience sat through the newsreel and the shorts. Then, instead of the promised Hollywood feature, a substituted picture came on-The Eight-Hundredth Anniversary of Moscow...
...show-the presidential candidates-were not such bad actors as predicted. Taft surprised his critics (who had rated him the lowest of the candidates, telegenically) with earnest, honest, drily witty performances on two LIFE-NBC interviews. Dewey, at his best in a four-way press conference (newspaper-radio-newsreel-television), proved that he had picked up stage presence. NBC ran a specially prepared MARCH OF TIME film of the governor in his younger, stiffer days, which showed that Dewey had changed much more than the part in his hair...