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Through an elaborate clandestine ritual, a meeting was arranged in a Union Square cafeteria with a stranger who told Burdett: "We have a mission for you in Finland," which was then fighting the Russian invasion. The stranger: the late Soviet spy chief, Jacob Golos. Reporter Burdett, financed by the party, arranged to travel as an unpaid roving correspondent, accredited by the Brooklyn Eagle...
Since he was publicly censured last December, the junior Senator from Wisconsin has been a virtual stranger on Capitol Hill. He hardly ever turns up at committee meetings, and his appearances in the Senate chamber are rare indeed. Last week the vibrant voice of Joe McCarthy was heard once more, in a blistering attack on President Eisenhower and the forthcoming Big Four meeting...
...Encounter. In Hampton Court, England, after Neil Dronfield, 8, fell off a bridge into the Thames, followed by Frank Willingdale, who was trying to save him, followed by Mrs. Willingdale, who was trying to save her husband, followed by the four Willingdale children, aged two to seven years, a stranger strolled by, pulled all seven out of the water, departed without disclosing his name...
...ideal worthy of any human being. She is very vivacious and looks healthy and happy. She answered all my questions herself but Miss Thompson had to repeat to me all her words as I could understand only a very few words which she pronouced very distinctly indeed. A stranger has to be used to her speech before he can under stand all she says. Her voice, however, was not "ghost-like" as a friend of mine suggested. Perhaps it becomes that when she is tired. Another friend has told me that some say that others help her to write...
...Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave-girl's lover; L'Indifférent subtly describes a handsome stranger who bypasses some unspecified hospitality...