Word: russe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King and Four Queens (Russ-Field-Gabco; United Artists). Clark Gable, known for a couple of decades in Hollywood as "the King," usually courts or is courted by a pair of beauties before he and his favorite finally go into a clinch. This time, instead of having to choose between two beautiful girls, he is pursued by four-a redhead, a brunette and a couple of blondes. But although he likes blondes, brunette and redhead, his favorite color is gold...
...LAST PARALLEL (333 pp.)-Martin Russ -Rinehart...
...inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This Day, by Army Private Stewart, is the more powerful and moving. The Last Parallel, by Marine Sergeant Russ, is more cocky and exuberant; neither is for the reader who is queasy of mind or stomach...
Black-Market Beat. Minnesotan Russ Jones, 38, arrived in Budapest six days before Soviet troops and tanks roared in to crush the rebellion, decided to stay on when some 150 Western correspondents pulled out of Budapest. Other Western press representatives who stayed: Associated Press Staffer Endre Marton, a native Hungarian who had recently been released from prison by the Communists; Marlon's wife, U.P. Correspondent Ilona Nyilas (who had also been imprisoned); Reuters Reporter Ronald Farquhar...
...Russ Jones has been on hot spots before. He was in Prague when A.P. Correspondent William Oatis was jailed on a phony charge of spying (TIME, July 16, 1951 et seq.). After ignoring repeated warnings from the State Department that it would only be a matter of time before he was arrested, Jones was finally inveigled to Frankfurt by the U.P. for a "conference," was not permitted to go back. Said a U.P. colleague: "He's just a guy who likes to stay where things are happening...