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From across another ocean Denmark Distributor Rudolf Fardal also wrote of his first experiences with TIME. He was a distributor of Swedish newspapers and magazines, most of them banned during the German occupation. One day in 1945, he received word that a TIME Inc. representative would like to talk to him in Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity...
...posts, and had presumably a great future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...
...When Rudolf Bing ends his third season as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera next spring, he will have completely restyled twelve operas and achieved a good part of what he was hired to do, i.e., make Met productions a consistent pleasure to the eye as well as the ear. He has not been able to cure the Met's chronic deficits (last year's: about $475,000), but the directors are content. Last week, to nobody's surprise, they signed Bing up for another three years...
...Communist leaders in East Germany grew sick with apprehension. Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat. Then he made a public promise that sent the specter of Rudolf Slansky howling down the corridors of East German government departments: "[We] will ruthlessly remove all mistakes and shortcomings . . . Those who are guilty will face the consequences...
...first head fell quickly. Dr. Karl Hamann, 49, Minister of Trade and Supply, was sacked and jailed for "bad and bureaucratic work"; his assistant, Rudolf Albrecht, State Secretary for Food, was denounced as a "saboteur." Next in line were "a number of leading bandits" responsible for the "month-by-month decline" in coal production. Then the accusing finger pointed at Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S and escaped to East Germany on the Polish liner Batory. There he became Chief of Information (i.e., Propaganda) in Soviet Germany. "A basic change [is needed...