THE MICHIGAN DAILY )rant' Lecturer Nila Magidoff To Tell Adventures Ismo By NORMA SUE WOLFE ranger than fiction" were the a member of the Slavic ages and literature depart- used to describe the life of. ssional lecturer Nila Magi- who will speak here tomor- on, rlow. But her story is hardly fiction. in a book called simply "Nila,"' Willie Snow Ethridge, her biogra- pher and personal friend, de- scribed her as "... the most amus- ing, outgoing, generous, vibrant overwhelming human being have ever known." The author had wanted to write the story of Nila's life since the early days of their friendship but Mrs. Magidoff didn't consent until 1954. For three or four hours every morning during a period longer than a month, she relived her life in Russia until she was too ex- hausted to continue. Started as Child Mrs. Magidoff began working on the power of positive speech as a child in Russia. She recalled the cakes that her mother baked on Saturdays. "My ability as a speaker dates back to those Saturdays, for every, week T would: argue my brother and sisters out of their cakes. I would say to them the cakes were so small that /if they ate them, they would do them no good; they would just have a bite or two-not enough to really enjoy.. "But if they -gave them all to me, then there would be enough to do me good. Mother used to say to the children, 'Eat your cakes fast or Nila will talk you out of them'." .Moved to Moscow When she was 18, the Kurskian moved alone to Moscow, traveling in a "car for the cattle-there was no other kind of railroad car after the Revolution," she explained. She found work washing the floor in the pavilion of the Agri-' cultural Exposition in Moscow. Then she was promoted to ticket- woman. Since no one was supposed to take anything from the Exhibition without a pass, Nita had a beauti- fully-,dressed, woman and a heavilyr bearded man arrested. They didn't have a pass for the flowers the woman was carrying. Escorted by Police But the man's name was Bel- oborodov, he was the Vice-Com- Missar of Justice of Soviet Repub- lics, and he was' furious. The next day a secret police official escorted her to Lubyanka, a "most horri- fying" prison. "Then I go into this long, beau-- tiful room and the Head Com- missar is there . . and this Bel- oborodov .and seven or eight other men sitting around a -long con- ference table," she recalled. Beloborodov stood up and told added" and then leaned down and kissed her. Mrs. Magidoff and her first hus-- band, Karl Gahlin, signed up to teach the ignorant people in Kir- ghizia. To reach the community they traveled by train, horse and boat. But a three-day journey over a lake was stretched to 15 after a storm. Swept Overboard "The captain and two- sailors were swept overboard and killed. Only Karel and I and three mem- bers of the crew were left. "Do you know how the three sailors and I spent the time? Cards we were playing. Tied by ropes to the mast, we played, cards." The survivors drank smashed eggs and baked a dough of pas- turage and salt water. Accepted Life "Nothing unusual or heroic about it. I just accepted the life," Mrs. Magidvff said modestly. She and her husband found the Kirghizian people "absolutely wild." Her work was organizing schools for the young children and clubs for the women in order to educate them in elementary hygiene. "There were whole settlements complete with venereal, disease and in meetings, the people would scratch themselves feverishly and pick wildly at their hair. They never killed the lice; they just threw them on the floor," she said. G t l Although she was kept in the apartment with other suspects all 'night, she managed to escape sus- picion by swallowing the message she -was to deliver. After other assorted prisons and the death of her husband, Mrs. Magidoff became a reporter for the Soviet newspaper Journal de Moscou. She sneaked into a fu- neral by carrying a musical in- strument and covered it for her paper. In November of 1936 at a Mos- cow skating. rink, she helped a fallen man to his feet. The man was Robert Magidoff, teaching fellow of the University Slavic de- partment, who was then serving as a foreign correspondent. They were married the next year and she escaped arrest as the widow zof a counter-revolutionist. However, leaving Russia seemed an impossibility. Mrs. Magidoff was finally granted a visa and supposedly ex- changed to the United States "for two loads of high octane gas." Thirteen years later, she found that it was not for gas but for a prominent Russian who was being detained in the United States. Finally a naturalized citizen, she returned to Moscow to see her husband and family. However, her visit was short, for Robert Magi- doff was wrongly accused of spying on the Soviet government. He and his wife were expelled from the country. Magidoff is now teaching at the University. His wife is a profes- sional lecturer and had to secure permission from her agent before speaking before the Russian Club. At 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack- ham Amphitheatre, Nila Magidoff will deliver a lecture entitled "I Discover America." Southward Bound? Do you need Swrim Suits (By Rose Mare Reid) CAPRI PANTS Demurely shorted. daringly printed I Jungle colors...t make each sea-far as glorious conquesi TABU, 10-18, 22.9 wa "STRANGER THAN FICTION"-Nila Magidoff, professional lec- turer, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Amphithea- tre. She is a native of the Soviet "I Discover America." the story of how awfully "Com- rade Shevko" had behaved. "Then it was my turn and I stood straight and motionless, both arms to my side,.like a soldier at inspection, and I made my speech. Very calmly I say, 'Com- rade Beloborodov, you are lying.' "There was complete silence in the room. Eyerybody knows I could be executed. "Then I say, 'Al-I did was to ask you politely for the pass for the flowers ... I was only stand- Union. The topic of her talk is Forgetfulness, fast thinking and smooth talking saved her when carrying secret messages for the ing there, serving on my post, opposition underground movement doing my duty. after the Russian Revolution. In- "Then the most unbelievable stead of being met by a confeder- thing happened," Mrs. Magidoff ate at their rendezvous, Mrs. Mag- said. "The Head Commissar got up idoff found the door opened by a and walked all around the table NKVD man. and put his hand on my shoulders Luckily for her, however, she and said, 'If everybody, Comrade made a mistake and gave the Shevko, will be as .honest as you wrong knock so he, previously in- are and not afraid to fight for his formed, did not know whether to rights, the Soviet Republics will suspect her or not. 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SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1959 VOLt LXIX, NO. 124 General Notices Seniors: College of L.S.&A., Schools of Business Administration, Education, J 1 7 1 t 1 i i 1 Music, and Public Health. Tentative lists of seniors for June graduation are posted on bulletin board in first floor lobby, Ad. Bldg., Any changes should be requested of the Recorder at Office of }Zegistration and Records, window No. A, 1513 Ad. Bldg. Special Meeting of Univ. staff, wives or husbands. "A Special Report on the Status of The Univ. of Mich." President Hatcher. Mon., March 23, 4:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall.- Automobile Regulations: Spring Re- cess. Automobile regulations will be lifted at 5 p.m. Fri., March 27, and will become effective again at 8 a.m. on Mon., April 6. Hopwood Contestants: Transcripts of first semester records due in Hopwood Room April 1, and should be ordered before spring vacation. During the period of March 21 to April 4 the Plant Dept. will be applying the annual spray treatment for the control of Dutch elm disease. The tem- perature and wind conditions which must be observed make it impossible to schedule the time and exact area of these applications. For the benefit of owners of cars that may be affected by this spraying opera- tion, it should be noted that the ma- terial used will not harm the finish of cars. If the spray mist should settle on a car, the spray should be allowed to dry and, after the liquid carrier has evaporated, the residue can be wiped off easily. Summary action taken at a meeting of Student Government Council, March 20, 1959. Approved minutes of previous meet- ing. Approved invitation to candidate for the Board of Regents of the Socialist Workers party to attend a Council meeting (previous action extended an invitation to Republican and Demo- cratic candidates.) Defeated a motion providing that SGC, to clarify its position in regard to women's rushing, recommends that Panhellenic and Assembly if they so desire investigate calendaring of a fall rush for upperclass, sophomore, and second semester freshmen women. Approved motion relating to estab- lishment of a central committee com- posed of three students, three faculty members, and two administrative offi- cials to organize and coordinate a study of freshman orientation, requesting co- operation of the various student or- ganizations and university agencies in the study with a view to better serv- ing the adjustment of freshmen in their transition from a high school conception of education to an appre- ciation of the manifold aspects of edu- cation in a university situation. 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