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...paratrooper who was preparing to jump turned to Capa and said seriously: "I don't like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer's pass.) After the Germans surrendered at Cherbourg, Capa was trying to photograph an arrogant Nazi general who turned his back to Capa and said haughtily that he was "bored" with the freedom of photographers. Needled Capa: "And I am bored with photographing defeated German...
...once freed, Sorokin still refused to collaborate with the Bolsheviks and after several close escapes, managed to smuggle himself out of the country. "What a relief," he recalls, "to cross the border and know that this time they could not come after me." Sorokin's last flight from Russia marked the end of an active, fifteen-year career as a revolutionary and gave him the opportunity to continue his work in sociology. Before leaving Russia in 1922, he had become prominent in both fields...
...children of a "capitalist," they were refused further education, and set, under police supervision, to learning trades. In 1952 they were moved to another village, put to farm labor. But in March both the boys and their grandmother were freed and taken to Bucharest. Costa and Peter got travel certificates and were finally delivered to the U.S. legation...
...welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...
...written opinion. Once, in court, while covering the arraignment before a federal commissioner of a man charged with stealing, Webster decided that the evidence had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure). Webster took over as the man's lawyer and got him freed...