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...Russian-born George Zlatovski arrived in the U.S. with his parents in 1922 at the age of twelve, settled in Duluth, Minn., earned the nickname "Trotsky" in high school because of his spouting off in defense of Red Russia. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he was a big pro-Communist on the campus, and he fought with the Red-sponsored Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish civil war. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Army, rose from private to lieutenant, in 1945-47 was assigned to U.S. intelligence work in Austria...
...reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired. Latest mishap: a 17-year-old boy who ran away from his Russian-born parents, rather than return with them to their homeland, is still hiding out in Buenos Aires...
When he was seven, Thomas Adrian Sands, scrawny, black-haired son of a Russian-born piano player, used to sit at the radio on a little farm near Shreveport, La. and listen to the moaning and wailing of his favorite hillbillies. "Mamma," he would cry out to Grace Sands, "it's Jimmy Davis! Mamma, it's Harmie Smith! Listen to the guitars. Oh, Mamma, if only I could have a guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play...
...month interval, a lot had happened to Jack Soble, 53, and his Russian-born wife, 53 (TIME, Feb. 4). They found out that while they were spying, the FBI had been on their trail. And when they faced the prospect that the Justice Department's case against them might well be unbeatable, they had to face up to the grim fact that in 1954 Congress raised the maximum penalty for peace time espionage from 20 years' imprisonment to death...
...conspirator in the Soble ring was a roly-poly, harmless looking mystery man named Boris Morros, who used to be well known in Hollywood and Manhattan as musical director of Paramount Pictures, and later as a movie producer (Tales of Manhattan, Carnegie Hall). Over the past decade or so, Russian-born Boris Morros had little to do with moviemaking, spent much of his time in Europe. Just what he was up to was a puzzle to his old Hollywood acquaintances. Shortly after the FBI nabbed the Sobles, the Justice Department identified Morros as its star witness. There were strong hints...