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...first time. Early in 1941, while she was in a Rumanian prison, Prime Minister Antonescu had the idea of exchanging Ana for a leader of the Peasant Party, Ion Codreanu, held by the Russians. The Russians wanted a package deal: they would trade Codreanu for Ana and another Rumanian Communist named Gheorghiu-Dej. When Antonescu insisted on a one-for-one trade, the Russians were quite ready to let Ana rot in jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into...
Died. Dr. Paul Klapper, 66, president emeritus of New York City's municipal Queens College, since 1951 educational consultant to the newly formed Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation; of a heart ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Rumanian-born Dr. Klapper campaigned tirelessly to 1) raise teachers' pay, 2) give them the dignity he felt the profession deserved...
...story of The Wages of Fear is the story of how two young European derelicts, the Frenchman Gerard and the Rumanian Johnny, ride the nitro in at high speed for $1,000 each...
Married. Grade Fields, 54, durable British music-hall comedienne, who deliberately "tampered with the radio" because she liked the looks of the repairman; and Rumanian-born Abraham Boris Alperovici, 48, the radio repairman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Santo Stefano Church, near Gracie's Isle of Capri villa...
...revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and tongue as northern Iranians, the agents from Russian Turkistan are well-trained and well-heeled. The agents steer clear of the big Russian embassy on Churchill Avenue, and get their orders from the Rumanian legation...