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...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...
...Rose (Louis Armstrong; Decca). Satchmo goes continental with a gravel-voiced version of the Edith Piaf café favorite...
Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...
Inside the U.S.S.R. there is a scattered anti-Communist underground. Last week in a Berlin cellar café, a leading representative of the Ukrainian nationalist movement told a TIME correspondent a bit of the story of its trials and works...
Sipping slowly at his Pilsener, the man in the Berlin café recalled that the German invasion of Russia in 1940 had given the Ukrainians new hope of winning their 240-year-old fight for independence. Throughout the Ukraine, guerrilla units sprang up and took advantage of the confusion to fight both Germans and Russians. By the end of World War II, the guerrilla Ukrainian Partisan Army (U.P.A.) had 200,000 men and ruled much of the Ukrainian countryside...