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...First of all, Poland received aid from UNRRA amounting to a half-billion dollars. Besides, at the order of the Kremlin, the Polish Communist government rejected aid offered under the Marshall Plan. It is equally untrue that the Communist regime never tried to endanger the church. On the contrary, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and scores of other Catholic priests spent years in prison. It is also not true that the Communist regime is for free movement of peoples, ideas and information. Travel to the West is denied to certain intellectuals, and Polish-language periodicals and books published in the West...
...Stefan Korbonski Chairman...
Beyond such arithmetics, the nature of the sport makes the daily fray somewhat irrelevant as a contest. Stefan Kanfer has noted that baseball records are the most durable of all sports records and thus render the early days of the sport as significant statistically as the last decade. Other major sports are either too young or too modified to have left recognized landmarks in the 1880s...
...STEFAN KORBONSKI
Back in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., more than three decades ago, a nine-year-old showman named Stefan Kanfer amazed his friends by producing coins and cards out of thin air. "It was the old up-the-sleeve trick," recalls Kanfer, now anchor man of TIME'S Essay section, "and the coins would generally clatter to the floor, to my embarrassment. As a magician, I had ten things working against me-my fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs...