Word: polished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall of the visitor's residence to get a glimpse. Next day Rospigliosi saw Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski closer up for a background talk. From Warsaw two TIME correspondents relayed their findings on the publicity-shy cardinal to the Bonn bureau, which incorporated exhaustive research among Polish refugees in Germany. In Pittsburgh TIME'S correspondent interviewed U.S. travelers who had recently seen Wyszynski. Result: the first comprehensive story on the man whose experiment in coexistence brought religious freedom to Poland and probably saved the country from Hungary's fate. See RELIGION, Cardinal & the Commissar...
...Germans in the wake of the 1944 uprising, and being liberated by General Patton's U.S. Third Army, big, blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
...boys studied in Italy and England, finally came to the U.S., where Jacek completed his architectural studies and later taught at Harvard. The youthful Von Hennebergs, 34 and 30, set up shop in Cambridge, Mass. Last January, with their associate, another Polish refugee, Bohdan Hryniewicz, 27, they entered an international competition, sponsored by Poland's Committee for the Reconstruction of Warsaw, to design a multistory apartment building for low-income families. Said Witold: "The competition was a plebiscite in which architects together with technical and economic specialists would freely decide how to build multistory apartment buildings under Polish conditions...
Died. Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. 53, Polish composer who came to the U.S. in 1945 as consular attaché in New York City, defected from his country's Communist regime in 1948; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Polish Riot Reported...