Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Female Heart. She spoke clearly and calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...
After that Judy saw the Russian six times. He bought her dinners, took hef rowing in Central Park. On Christmas she gave him some Toll House cookies. Said Archie: "Now tell the jury how he impressed your female heart and mind . . ." Judy had found him charming, sensitive. She added, with a quaver, "I thought I was in love with...
...night of January 14, the Russian had demonstrated that he was little more than a foreign cad-he admitted that he was married. He also tried to kiss her, for the first time. Judy had reacted like a milkmaid being pinched by a dry-goods drummer; she had wept and whacked him with a folded newspaper. Nevertheless, on the weekend of her arrest, she came back to New York "to get this thing settled...
Homework. Ostentatiously shocked by all this, Archie turned to the subject of Judy's purse. She readily admitted that she had been carrying notes of a document the FBI had planted on her desk. But she denied that she had been carrying the notes to the Russian...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...