Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much this kind of work can mean to the distressed of Europe is illustrated by another letter we have received as a result of the Zielezinski story -this one from a Polish D.P. now living in England. He writes...
This letter from a TIME reader in Los Angeles was one of those that came to us shortly after we had printed a story you may remember. It told how Farmer Paul Rhinehart of Peacock Station, Va., had offered a house and $100 a month to a Polish D.P. named Marian Zielezinski, who had arrived in the U.S. a fortnight before with his wife Irma, their two baby boys, two suitcases and nothing else...
...look at the picture of the Zielezinski family and oh, how I envy them! but wish them the best also. I was once a farmer like Mr. Rhinehart but in 1939 the Germans took my property away and in 1945 the Soviet-Polish regime took it again for themselves. How gladly would I accept the place of a laborer on a farm like the one of Mr. Rhinehart, and feed the chickens for him, because I cannot do much hard work - being feeble and middleaged. Please do not forget about us D.P.s from many European countries...
...born to poverty. Her father was a drifting railroad mechanic; her mother a Polish farmer's daughter. During her childhood in San Bernardino, Calif., her teachers despaired of her. She skipped classes, made eyes at the boys, and got miserable grades. She entered a beauty contest at twelve and won fourth prize, a pair of stockings. At 15 she married a youth named Irving Wheeler. He was not a touchstone to happiness, and she left him in three weeks...
...Popular. The dreary ideological arguments in the Tito controversy have no bearing on the real nature of the rift. Tito's failure to collectivize the peasants, for instance, is matched by the Polish, Czech and Rumanian Communist parties, none of which have collectivization programs. Yet these parties seem to be in good odor with Zhdanov and his Cominform...