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...after three years of yearning and scheming, Pilot Ivan Kavic of the Yugoslav airlines loaded his wife and young son aboard his plane. Determined to make a new life in the free air of Switzerland, he forced his copilot at pistol point to fly to Zurich (TiME, Oct. 29). Tito's Communist government demanded Kavic's extradition; the Swiss would not yield him up. Free to do as he liked, Kavic tried for a job as a pilot on several European airlines. He was turned down. He asked for a copilot's berth. No luck. After trying...
YUGOSLAVIA-Tito sent Edvard Kardelj and Milovan Djilas to the original Cominform meeting. After Tito broke from Moscow in 1948, all three were damned as "lackeys of the imperialists." Disposition: excommunicated...
...Matyas Rakosi, now 62, Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...
...Scala had worked hard to make Wozzeck a success. When Italian sopranos showed little interest in learning the exacting role of Wozzeck's faithless mistress Marie, Mitropoulos gave it to Soprano Dorothy Dow, of Galveston, Texas. The part of the plodding, unhappy Wozzeck went to Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi. Milan admired them both. Another successful touch was the scenery; instead of going in strong for realism, Designer Gianni Ratto made his sets shadowy and changeable, to keep the audience under the emotional spell of Berg's music...
Kelley's review of Tito and the Cominform by Adam B. Ulan is a little better. For most of the review, however, Kelley merely repeats Ulan's theses. He also seems to have a deadly fascination for the semi-colon, a choice punctuation he uses at least ten times. This plus a few colons makes the review difficult and often run-on reading. The other review, on Ghost and Flesh by William Goven, contains some excellent critical writing...