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...Ottawa home Babinski only said blandly: "It is ridiculous. I knew of no password. Fiderkiewicz, you know, is a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Affair of the Absconded Art | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...long ago, Minister Fiderkiewicz (called "Fido" in Ottawa) decided to ship the treasures back to Poland. He sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Affair of the Absconded Art | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...with a Tumor. Last week the anguished Dr. Fiderkiewicz let out the whole cloak & dagger story. Where were the treasures? The Minister was sure he knew. Said he darkly: "The only man who had a tumor on his ear and also knew the password is Polkowski. I wrote Polkowski asking what he had done with the art. He replied that he had given his word of honor not to reveal its location." Who was the man at Ste. Anne's? "Babinski," said Dr. Fido. ". . . It is all Babinski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Affair of the Absconded Art | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password in the struggle to make Honduras free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Pines of Honduras | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Missouri's Here." So many of the visitors were from Harry Truman's home state of Missouri that the Washington Daily News headlined a story: "ALL MISSOURI'S HERE TO SEE HARRY." Said the News: "Apparently the only password to the White House these days is 'He's an old buddy of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Home Week | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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