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...Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
Early during World War II, one of the most remarkable writers ever to emigrate to the U.S. arrived in New York from France. Vladimir Nabokov was a stateless Russian. Unlike Oscar Wilde, who earlier at the same port said he had nothing to declare but his genius, Nabokov declared a set of boxing gloves. Two customs inspectors each donned a pair, sparred a friendly round and chalked everything O.K. But it was Nabokov who really won that round, for he smuggled into the country a greater and more scandalous talent than Wilde...
...Bilbao, Spain, of Hungarian parents, short, snub-nosed Queen Mimi had seen great changes come over her people. "Once the gypsies were horse traders," she explained to reporters from her deathbed last week. "Progress has compelled them to deal in used autos. But one can't complain." From stateless, fortunetelling wanderers, the Cuirara tribe became prosperous, passport-carrying salesmen, who drive in style up and down Europe in search of fresh markets for their cars. Only two months ago, Queen Mimi and an entourage of 50 set out in six Buicks, a Cadillac and seven towed caravans...
...while playing a tournament in Switzerland, Drobny and his doubles part ner. Vladimir Czernik. refused to go home when the Czech government told them to bow out because a German and a Spaniard had entered. Life as a stateless tennis amateur was not easy. Drobny moved to Australia, then the U.S., always broke between matches. When a wealthy Egyptian tennis fan offered him a job and a chance to play all the tennis he wanted, Drobny became an Egyptian citizen, ultimately developed his own profitable export business...
Last week Joda was one of a ragged band of 67 bitterly disillusioned Israelis who, fleeing their land of promise, had been caught smuggling themselves into, of all places, Germany. At Munich's Camp Fohrenwald, last remaining German D.P. camp for stateless Jews (where the feeling against the returners was high), Joda told his story: "When we got to Israel, I was told I was too old to be a butcher any more. I was put to work in a quarry. We were not beaten or mistreated, but otherwise things were not too different from life in the [concentration...