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...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...have a feeling of love for [Russia]," whispered 25-year-old Emma Woikin, ex-cipher clerk in the Canadian External Affairs Department. "I wanted to help the Soviet but not to hurt Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Scent for Secrets | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Widowed Mrs. Woikin, first of Canada's 14 spies to go on trial, had worked with the Soviet Embassy's Major Sokolov, a "handsome man." The major and his wife had been most friendly. Again & again they pressed her to come to their home. "They were very intelligent people," sighed Mrs. Woikin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Scent for Secrets | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...until after a year of agreeable acquaintanceship with the Sokolovs that Mrs. Woikin began to talk. The major gave her cash and expensive perfume. In return, she gave him a watercolor and secret information. Once she left a confidential document in a dentist's room for another agent to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Scent for Secrets | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Emma Woikin listened quietly while her defense counsel pleaded her case. Said he: She was "flattered by the attention paid her by Major Sokolov, who was what might be termed an attractive, good-looking man." The judge was unimpressed: two and a half years for Emma Woikin in Kingston Penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Scent for Secrets | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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