Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed up to verify the tale, though "Anastasia" claimed to have married one of them. She found many friends to champion her cause, even after one enterprising German journalist discovered that a Polish girl named Franziska Schanzkowsky had disappeared from a Berlin boarding house shortly before the young woman's discovery in the canal, and suggested that she was the same girl...
...Polish dailies have not only covered stories like Western papers; they are even beginning to look like them. Though some Warsaw papers have long carried drab, inconspicuous ads, Trybuna Ludu, the official party organ, announced last month that it would start running display ads, which are nonexistent in other satellite papers. Other Warsaw dailies scrambled to sell space, now run whole pages of bold-faced ads for free enterprisers. On one freezing day last week, a Warsaw brewery urged Zycie Warszawy readers: "If you have a cold, fix yourself a mulled beer." Urged the Polish equivalent of an Arthur Murray...
...Place for Censorship. Last week Polish newsmen were busily planning a campaign to cut the last strings of censorship and win constitutional guarantees of independence for the press. One of the leaders of the campaign is Eligiusz Lasota, fiery young (29) editor of the weekly Po Prostu, who was resoundingly elected to Parliament last month. His first task in office will be to fight for press freedom. "There is no place for censorship in a democracy," says Lasota. "Without democracy, there is no socialism...
...Find Good Things to Say." The anti-Russian ferment in Poland's press started out in literary papers three years ago, before Moscow's destalinization campaign, as a protest against Communist stultification of Polish culture, boiled over into mass circulation magazines and such leading Warsaw dailies as Zycie Warszawy and Express Wieczorny, In the past year Polish papers have boldly challenged Russian policies in every sphere, from art to economics...
...self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other Communist country. One sure proof of their effectiveness is that the Polish press is being denounced in Pravda...