Word: riga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrys Grots '52 lived in Riga, Latvia, the small nation that has been buffeted between Germany and Russia for decades...
Although he is modest about it, Berlin is well qualified in Russian studies. He was born in the Baltic city of Riga in 1909 and learned the language there. He moved to England as a boy and went to college at Oxford, where he later became a member of the faculty. He returned to Russia in 1945, however, for a year as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. Before taking the Russian post, he was with the Ministry of Information in New York from 1941-42 and then moved to the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary...
Germs for Billy. In various states, "Dr." Faiman has had other little brushes with the law. Apparently born in Riga, Latvia (or maybe Minneapolis), he was indicted as an abortionist in St. Paul in 1922. The case was dismissed because of "the condition and attitude of the complainant." In 1925, Faiman told a Chicago court that he had supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage...
Changes of foehn-like abruptness have checkered Dr. Paul's political meanderings. When Hitler came to power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...