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...Polish-born author, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says that he drew upon the recollections of 700 Poles, Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer...
Under a law passed in 1940, Polish-born Painter Beys Afroyim forfeited his U.S. citizenship by voting in a 1951 Israeli election. Not so, argued Afroyim all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week the court upheld him-and thereby made it possible, in effect, for Americans to hold dual citizenship...
Stangl was one of 800 such killers so far tracked by the Jewish Documentation Center, Wiesenthal's one-man operation. A Polish-born architect, Wiesenthal survived five years at Mauthausen and other concentration camps, helped forge his wife's "Christian" papers to spirit her out of the Warsaw ghetto; together, they lost 87 relatives to the Nazis. Since the war's end, he has carried on his search, helped by cash contributions from many parts of the world. In his new book, The Murderers Among Us (to be published this month in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill...
...Johnsonian veil of secrecy, the selection process has already begun. Last week the President named Zbigniew Brzezinski, the astute, dynamic director of Columbia University's Research Institute on Communist Affairs since 1961, to a secondary but sensitive and influential post on State's Policy Planning Council. Polish-born and Canadian-reared, Brzezinski, a U.S. citizen since 1958, has been a persuasive advocate for the U.S. position in Viet Nam at widely publicized teach-ins. He is singularly attuned to the many nuances of modern Communism and has suggested bold departures in American policy to capitalize on the changes...
...late Polish-born cosmetics czarina, Helena Rubinstein, was a passionate pack rat. As some women accumulate lipsticks, she collected silverware, Oriental rugs, miniature period furniture, African art and dolls. She also owned works by the greatest French painters of her day. When she died last year at the age of 94, she left four homes-in Manhattan, Greenwich, Conn., London and Paris-each packed with masterpieces and exquisite junk...