Word: oksana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst's King Features Syndicate signed up Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who jumped from Manhattan's Russian consulate into a sea of headlines (TIME, Aug. 23), to tell her "own story" in 28 installments, 28,000 words. Isaac Don Levine, Russophobe editor of Plain Talk, would put it into English...
After days of negotiation last week three reporters (who had drawn lots for the chance to represent the press) were permitted to interview Soviet Schoolteacher Oksana Kasenkina. From her bed in Roosevelt Hospital she reiterated the reason for her perilous three-story jump: "I did not want to kill myself; I wanted to escape...
Meanwhile he had also become consul general in New York City, a job second in importance only to that of ambassador. Jacob had certainly made good. In fact, there was no telling where he might have gone if Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, the schoolteacher, had not jumped out of the third-floor window of his consulate...
...minute later, at 4:19, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina jumped out a window of the consulate (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the most sensational story of the week tumbled right into the lap of the press. The men went to work on it as swiftly as firemen sliding down a pole...
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...