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Pressed Flowers. After Jane Marsh, the one American who created the greatest fascination and furor was California Pianist Misha Dichter, 20, who placed second to a remarkable young 17-year-old Soviet, Grigori Sokolov. The slight, baby-faced teen-ager played so brilliantly that the jury took the unprecedented step of awarding its compliments not only to him, but to his teacher, Professor L. I. Seligman of Leningrad...
...other attitude is simply ausgeschiossen. Raymond A. Sokolov...
Coincidence. Washington and London squirmed but kept silent. Scarcely anyone noticed the remarkable coincidence of dates between the police action at Khabarovsk and the opening-and mysterious dismissal-of the New York trial of Soviet Spies Aleksandr Sokolov and "Joy Ann Baltch" (see THE LAW). There were many other theories as to what had happened: local police had been overzealous; Moscow had deliberately trapped the diplomats; the Russians had found a new way to destroy effective agents-publicity and ridicule...
...Government really drop its case in Brooklyn two weeks ago against accused Soviet Spies Aleksandr Sokolov and the woman who called herself Joy Ann Baltch? Was it a deal or a goof? Was the Government really foiled because Defense Lawyer Edward Brodsky invoked what newsmen called a "1795 law" requiring the names and addresses of Government witnesses-thus endangering U.S. secret agents...
Every federal defendant has, thus, long been entitled to a list of Government witnesses in order to decide what testimony he must rebut when he is accused of crimes punishable by death-including espionage. Thus, the Sokolov tactic could not have surprised the Government; in fact, the court had approved it a full year before the abortive trial in Brooklyn. Why the Government really dropped the case is yet to be determined...