Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his 13 years in the New York fire department, Gerard W. Purcell spent as little time as possible climbing ladders and sliding down brass poles. By becoming financial secretary of the Uniformed Firemen's Association-the A.F.L. union which represents smoke eaters below the rank of lieutenant-he...
With El Campesino in the Paris courtroom was one of the largest collections of Soviet slave-camp alumni ever assembled Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews, Spaniards, and Balts. They included Jerzy Gliksman, brother of the Polish Socialist Victor Alter, who was executed by the NKVD in 1941; Margarete Buber-Neumann...
Guinea Pigs. In the beginning, Author Buber found Ravensbrück easier than Siberia. "The Gestapo men . . . were still bound, if ever so loosely, to the judicial traditions of a civilized country, in which . . . an offender had to be formally charged and brought up for trial." If camp discipline was...
In the icy dawn the searchers gathered up the broken bodies. Padre Vélaz could not identify most of them, but carefully copied the laundry marks in their clothing. Then he helped enshroud his students in sheets. At 9, the party, carrying the shrouded bodies slung between poles, began...
The little white frame Congregational church at Staffordville, Conn. (pop. 1,000) is the only Protestant church in town. Most of its 75 members-Italians, Poles, Czechs and some Yankees-work in the nearby button and belt factories.