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...Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee & the Rose | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Committee is also studying a request to send approximately $30 worth of streptomycin to a Bulgarian student in Sofia who is suffering from tuberculosis. He wrote to the University requesting the medicine and the letter was forwarded to the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Allocates Charities Money | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

...sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Places & Things | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Sofia orphanage was named after Liliana Dimitrova, Communist under ground worker killed during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Places & Things | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...British National Union of Students, an organization similar to the NSA, suspended its membership until the Second World Student Congress meets next August to protest the arrest of the Yugoslavian delegation to an IUS meeting in Sofia and the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the IUS in February because that country is "Fascist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Britain Quits International Student Plan | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

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