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When the war began, Olga Dedier was a dark-haired girl with a medical degree and a passion for skiing. She worked in Belgrade's anti-Fascist youth movement, often made flapjacks for her journalist husband Vladimir, who learned to like them in America. In the war's first year she bore a daughter, Militsa...
...Grin. Britain probably expects less of concrete achievement from the Moscow conference than either of her fellow nations, but is more determined than either to avoid anything like a rupture or failure. The national attitude was shrewdly summed up by the New Statesman and Nation's "Sagittarius" (Olga Katzin), who in a dignified parody of Lord Tennyson saluted the Moscow conference with a fatalistic grin...
...right here and now," stated Ensign Olga Quadland in answer to my query, "that our social life is confined to meals at the College Coffee Shoppe." "Yes," chimed in Ensign Myers, "and as to how we feel about being the first and so far only WAVES in the school, frankly, we've not time to worry about it." At which point began a discussion of the course, its restrictive influence on the social life of a WAVE, and the chivalry of fellow students...
...Olga Samaroff Stokowski, concert pianist, ex-wife of Conductor Leopold, proved herself the perfect wartime dinner guest: she brought along not only her ra tion book but also her cook...
...than Robert Young on a screaming sprint for a psychiatrist, a desert island, or an ax. She suggests that her husband, if he is more man than mouse, will simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia gravitates to Mother with the velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken...