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...Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into the center...
COCKS AND BULLS IN CARACAS - Olga Briceño - Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). Pleasantly humorous and non-statistical report on Caracas life, its houses, court ships, saints and social institutions by a Venezuelan correspondent and lecturer...
...hospital bed in Cairo last week Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dedier of the Partisans gave some old friends among the correspondents later news of his wife. Major Olga Dedier of the Medical Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's Green Mountain last June. Marshal Tito was wounded that day, too, and the Germans almost surrounded and annihilated four of his best divisions. Vladimir saw Olga fall and ran to pull her into a ditch, out of reach of the Stukas...
There were no other doctors and no medicaments. For nine days, while the Partisans slipped through the mountains and out of the trap, Olga staggered after them. Vladimir brought her berries to eat and grass and occasionally raw horse meat...
...tenth day, in an open field, her ragged arm was amputated. When one of the few remaining shots of heart stimulant was brought to her, Dr. Olga said: "Save it for those who will live." Then she said: "Tell our little daughter she has something to learn from her mother...