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Died. Frederick Joubert ("Fritz") Duquesne, 78, South African-born mastermind of one of the biggest (33 men and women) spy networks ever uncovered in the U.S., inveterate Anglophobe, who in 1942 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for Nazi espionage; in a New York City hospital on Welfare Island...
To the untutored eye, the photograph, on the library wall in a quiet brick house on Capitol Hill looks like any other sentimental memento of World War I-a double rank of Army officers seeming foolishly dated in their choked collars. But, like virtually everything else surrounding slight, modest, 64...
The Call of the Muezzin. The novel's hero, Dirk Celliers, is a free-lance South African journalist nosing around Cairo for stories to send his London editor. An Egyptian officer friend, Major Khaled, takes him to a cell meeting of the League of Free Officers, a conspiratorial group...
City. Church World Service met the sailors, gave them American clothing, medical care and spending money, arranged for them to get factory jobs, meet other Russian refugees, attend English-language studies at Columbia University, as they chose. Three of the Russians lived at the university's International House, where...
The Lean Years. In Pittsburgh, W. Z. Sulenski finally paid a $6.01 Equitable Gas Co. bill dated Dec. 8, 1926, explained that the delay was caused by "pressing financial problems."