Word: oksana
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Oksana Stepanovna Kasenlcina, now feeling "very, very good" and able to walk a little with a cane, checked out of a Manhattan hospital (in a wheel chair) 100 days after her leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud...
...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...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...
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...