Word: gheorghiu
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...TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR (404 pp.)-C. Virgil Gheorghiu, translated by Rita Eldon-Knopf...
...there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name in a large clear hand: C. Virgil Gheorghiu. Within a couple of hours he had sold close to 1,000 copies of The Twenty-Fifth Hour...
Helpless Heroes. Gheorghiu has two heroes, both Rumanians, neither of them guilty of any crime. Johann is a naive young farmhand who is sent to a labor camp by a police official who covets his wife. Traian is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when the Yugoslavs pick him up as an enemy alien. Once imprisoned, each begins a pointless odyssey of torture and despair that ends with Traian's death in a camp and Johann's enlistment (to escape another round of internments) in the army of "the West" at the start...
...Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, son of a laborer. He became a railway electrician, spent 1935-44 in prison for organizing unions, helped found the Cominform in 1947. As secretary general of the Rumanian Communist Party, he last month announced that he had completed a purge of "undesirable [Titoist] elements...
Like most Communists, she got around; her name popped up in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris. She learned seven languages. In Paris, she met handsome Maurice Thorez, with whom her friendship was more than political. In 1933, together with fellow Communists George Gheorghiu-Dej and Constantin Doncea, Pauker organized the Bucharest railway strike which ended in bloody fighting between the barricaded workers and government troops...