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Last week two new Answer Men began broadcasting, one in Greece (Aftos Pou Sola Apanda) and one in Turkey (Hazircevap Adam). As in every other foreign country, Chapman was warned not to expect the same lively and miscellaneous curiosity he is used to in the U.S. "Europeans are different," he is repeatedly told. Says Chapman: "They don't seem very different to me. One of the questions Europeans ask most frequently is 'Do Indians have beards...
...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
...Sola's testimony began collapsing immediately. Instead of backing him to the hilt, as he had promised, his divorced wife contradicted him completely and added that he was a man of violently unstable emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...
This kept on for 64 years until there arose in San Cesario one who could take the challenge. Young Gustavo Sola, a partisan hero of World War II, was known as "Il Corsaro" (the pirate). When the war was over, the 23-year-old Corsaro went with two friends to Spilamberto's priest, who had charge of the cannon, and persuaded him to yield the trophy in exchange for a signed receipt. Detouring en route so the countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper...
Women have never before been accepted as students, although a woman--Sola Mentschikoff--has been a visiting professor for the last two years...