Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet screen is Meeting on the Elbe, and it has everything-American reactionaries, stolen secret formulas, a sexy, blonde FBI undercover agent, music by Shostakovich. Above all, it has a message. So far 2,000,000 Moscow movie fans have seen it; it has packed 22 of the Russian capital's 50 movie theaters...
...film's plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
...four of the pianists do the arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
...Voice of America, was fighting a furious electronic battle last week for Russia's radio audience. His weapons were powerful transmitters spotted through the northern hemisphere. His projectiles were radio waves. Herrick chalked up a victory whenever the Voice's broadcasts broke through Soviet jamming to reach Russian ears...
Soviet transmitters began jamming the Voice's Russian-language programs in February 1948. They were not too successful then, but last month a mighty barrage of jamming broke out. It practically obliterated the Russian-language programs of both the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp. Directional receivers proved that the Russians had put 150 transmitters...