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Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, son of a laborer. He became a railway electrician, spent 1935-44 in prison for organizing unions, helped found the Cominform in 1947. As secretary general of the Rumanian Communist Party, he last month announced that he had completed a purge of "undesirable [Titoist] elements...
...Metropolitan Opera usually picks a conductor to work at his specialty, thus assigns him to one particular "wing" of the Met repertory, i.e., the French, German or Italian. Jonel Perlea, the goateed Rumanian conductor whom the Met hired this season, had no specialty, and the Met decided he needed none. When he arrived in Manhattan in October, he was told that he would have to work in all three wings. His first assignments: Tristan und Isolde...
Among the letters which continued pouring into Le Monde's office was one from a Rumanian refugee in Paris which pointed a sharp political moral to Duval's story. Wrote he: "If our poor plumber had had the 'happiness' to be born in the U.S.S.R. [and had written such a letter as he wrote to Le Monde], he would not even have had time to say his goodbyes to his numerous family before undertaking the hard, long trip toward the salt mines...
This week the Academy of Sciences of the Rumanian People's Republic, in collaboration with the Rumanian Soviet Scientific Institute, will hold a symposium on the scientific achievements of Joseph Stalin, occasioned by the Generalissimo's forthcoming 70th birthday. Papers are to be read on the following subjects...
...London, twice-divorced Errol Flynn, 40, sporting a beard grown for a movie-in-progress based on Rudyard Kipling's Kim, announced his engagement to Princess Irene Ghica, 19, a blue-eyed Rumanian beauty, who had just arrived from Paris with a gift of his favorite food: French snails...