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...European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a somber, loose-jointed documentary on the rise and fall of a big party wheel in Communist Czechoslovakia. Wechsberg's Communist hero-heel is named Bruno Stern, but his career closely parallels that of the late Rudolf Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged in a 1952 show trial. In explaining how Slansky-Stern went bad, Author-Journalist Wechsberg offers a somewhat oversimplified ugly-duckling theory. Bruno Stern's first experience of being unwanted is an east European pogrom...
...President promptly sent his personal endorsement of the plan to the board's chairman, Eric Johnston. Even before this, the City of New Orleans had become interested in the board's idea. Rudolf S. Hecht, on behalf of International House, and a group of the city's private business organizations undertook the job of sponsoring just such a conference...
Hope for Control? For almost a century after Berlin's Dr. Rudolf Virchow named leukemia ("white blood") and de scribed it as a proliferation of the white cells, little more was learned about it. Most researchers have tried to find out where the white cells come from, and why. Dr. Bierman thinks this is only one part of the picture, and probably not the most important, because in some forms of leukemia, it is now known, there is no excess of white cells...
Modern Living. In Vienna, after touring Europe for a year inside a big glass bottle, Stunt Man Rudolf Schmied climbed out, told reporters that he had lost 60 Ibs., but "there is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle...
...Czechoslovakia, November 1952, Rudolf Slansky, Communist Party secretary-general, and 13 high-placed codefendants confessed to high treason, conspiracy, murder, espionage, Titoism, Zionism, in behalf of "foreign imperialist agents." Who was their spymaster? "The well-known agent Field." Verdict: death on the gallows for Slansky and ten others; imprisonment for three...