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...Balts who managed to escape abroad before Soviet occupation, the Baltic diplomats in exile are bitterly anti-Russian, as bitterly anti-German. Whether the 1,100,000 Estonians, 1,900,000 Latvians, 2,800,000 Lithuanians who stayed in the homeland now prefer Russian or German rule is unknown. Only one thing seems certain: they will soon have Russian rule, autonomously or otherwise...
Nine months ago the first ASTP language group arrived at Harvard, and so naturally we are pregnant with potentialities as we leave next week for parts unknown...
...anonymous 19th-Century letter writer. Wrote he: "These two maids left their home in the East with a romantic attachment for each other and which continued until the death of the 'farmer maid.' The artist was inconsolable, and after a brief time, removed to parts unknown...
...wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories. His favorite author: Conan Doyle...
When in 1868 an unknown writer named Thomas Hardy submitted his first novel (The Poor Man and the Lady), it drew one of the "gigantic, honest letters" for which Alexander was noted. "Is it conceivable," the publisher protested, "that any man, however base . . . would do as you make the Hon. Guy Allancourt do? Is it within the range of likelihood that any gentleman would pursue his wife at midnight and strike her?" But the publisher was not unaware of Hardy's possibilities: "You see," he concluded, "I am writing to you as to a writer who seems...