Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
...What woman? The woman, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina! Not only stolen-kidnaped! Listening, the cop gathered that he was being informed of an international incident. Who had taken her? Reds! They had come in a big car. They had demanded the woman! They had driven...
...cops tore out to the farm, where they heard a sinister tale. The woman was a schoolteacher who had been brought to New York from Russia two years ago to instruct the children of Soviet diplomats. She was to have returned to Russia at the end of July; the Russians had closed the school. But she was afraid to go because her husband had been "liquidated." She had asked the editor of a New York Russian-language newspaper for help. She was sent to Reed Farm, which the Countess ran as an asylum for Russian exiles...
Died. Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...
...Graham Greene drew a horrifying portrait of an adolescent Catholic named Pinkie, who was headed straight for damnation, and dimly, desperately knew it. In The Heart of the Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years as Deputy Commissioner of Police, admires or despises him because, in a world of utter corruption, Policeman Scobie seems utterly incorruptible. What they do not know-what Scobie himself does not know at first-is that in order...