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...more than twelve years the FBI has been tracing strands of the web of subversion and espionage that stretched out from Vassily Zubilin. At 7 a.m. one day last week, reaching the end of one important strand, FBI agents in Manhattan arrested two men and a woman on charges of serving as Soviet spies: Jack Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 64, both natives of Lithuania, and Soble's Russian-born wife Myra, 52. Handcuffed, the prisoners were escorted to Manhattan's federal courthouse, where a U.S. commissioner set bail at $100,000 apiece...
...house, Parke-Bernet, has published a 313-page illustrated catalogue. Sale of the 1,021 listed items will take two weeks, is expected to bring over $1.000.000. not counting the 167 lots of jewelry. Among the jewels are two of the most famous Oriental pearl necklaces ever assembled, a strand of 55 and another of 73 matched and graduated pearls, which in 1916 Mrs. Rovensky (then Mrs. Plant) received from her multimillionaire husband. Commodore Plant had taken them as payment of $1,000,000 for their house at 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The purchaser: Carder's, whose headquarters...
...Hulot's Holiday provides several hours of quiet for those who have grown tired of talking to people in Widener. At the Strand...
...Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history. As one rhapsodic Texan put it: "A shining strand linking together the jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gull...
...Thursday, May 19, 1763 James Boswell noted in his "London Journal" that strolling through the Strand he had met several ladies of the town and, "in a rich flow of animal spirits," had betook them to a private room in an ale-house. "I toyed with them and drank about and sung 'Youth's the Season' from The Beggar's Opera and thought myself Captain Macheath; and then I solaced my existence with them, one after the other, according to their seniority." Two hundred years later the Drama Festival's production of the same play, while not specifically aphrodisiac, still...