Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Moscow gathered in little knots on the sidewalk near Bogoyavlenie Church, gaping in amazement last week as Orthodox dignitaries blandly celebrated a requiem high mass for the late Rumanian Dowager Queen Marie. This was accompanied by loud, priestly chanting clearly audible some distance from the church. So far...
PRELUDE FOR WAR-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Characteristic Charteris story in which Simon Templar, the reckless Robin Hood of crime, outwits munitions manufacturers and thwarts a fascist revolution in France-fast-moving, but with the Saint less amusing than in his earlier adventures.
Freuchen went after a good living, but he continued to like freedom and excitement. Confinement and routine cramped him like a vest several sizes too small for his barrel chest. As editor of his in-laws' magazine, forced to compromise between literature and margarine sales, he tore out his...
The Sudetens, next to Poland's Ukrainians, constitute the largest national minority in Europe. The Slavs held the Sudeten region as early as the Sixth Century but in the Twelfth Germans filtered in as monks, townsmen, traders, artisans. They naturally became the manufacturers of the 19th Century Bohemian industrial...
Alexander Efron is a strapping White Russian with an appraising eye and a voice as smooth as cream. He was a cadet in the Russian revolution, defended the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers...