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...when he registered for St. Louis University's new commerce school in 1910, and he worked with fierce urgency at his studies. Gus Klausner was having to start his education all over again. Anti-Semitic pogroms had driven him and his wife Anna to the U.S. from Vilna, in White Russia only three years before. Working in St. Louis' garment industry in the daytime, Gus earned a bachelor's degree in night school, then a master's, ended by teaching night classes himself. In 1920 he quit his clothing-store job to teach at Roman Catholic...
...time Robert Casadesus gave a concert in Riga, or Boris Chaliapin sang at the National Opera. Now, there are only a handful of theaters left, most of them Russian, and the people are in no mood to attend them. Related a refugee: "On June 13, 1946, I was in Vilna† and saw, with my own eyes, 3,000 men being transported from the central prison camp to the central station. They were to be shipped to Siberia. After seeing faces like theirs, you don't feel like going to an operetta in the evening." In Tallinn, every five...
...Limit" Elite. Riga's once famed, numerous pastry shops are empty these days, and the equally numerous florists are little more than a memory. The taverns in Vilna have been transformed into prisons by the MGB. Life is no safer than in Russia, though the standard of nourishment is higher. Related a refugee: "There is no starvation, not so much because the Russians try to prevent it, but because the people are united to such an extent that everyone in need gets help. The farmers are wonderful. Every appeal from the underground for vital foodstuffs is immediately...
There, this week, General Ivan Chernyakhovsky died of a battle wound. The Russian "soldier's soldier," he was often at the front, taking risks no Allied Army commander is supposed to take. Moscow ordered a hero's funeral at Vilna, a grant and annuities to his widow and two children, a monument to honor a twice-named Hero of the Soviet Union...
...judge and jury and Mr. Churchill had the role of public prosecutor. It was Mr. Churchill who did all the arguing for Premier Stalin at that latest Moscow discussion about Poland's future boundaries, diplomatic informants say. When Mr. Mikolajczyk pleaded for mercy by asking that Vilna and Lwow be included within Poland's frontiers, it is said, Mr. Molotov interrupted him by saying: 'There is no use discussing that; it was all settled in Teheran...