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...annals of 20th-century journalism, few names are more ignominious than Walter Duranty. The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent during the 1920s and 1930s, Duranty was by all accounts a liar, a recycler of propaganda and a willful apologist for one of history’s bloodiest tyrants, Joseph Stalin...
...early 1930s there were few Western correspondents in Russia, and members of the Pulitzer committee, like most other Americans, would have deferred to the Times as somewhat authoritative on all matters Soviet. Many have speculated whether Duranty’s editors were aware of the gross deficiencies in his journalism. Again, it’s tough to tell, although Sally J. Taylor’s 1990 book Stalin’s Apologist alleged that several editors considered Duranty a Soviet stooge...
DIED. MARVIN SMITH, 93, Kentucky-born photographer who documented life in Harlem from the 1930s to the '60s; in New York City. He and his twin brother Morgan were inseparable--they married twin sisters in a double wedding and divorced them on the same day three years later--and together they photographed celebrities like Jackie Robinson, Nat King Cole and Sidney Poitier, as well as moments of everyday life in Harlem...
...DIED, GORDON ONSLOW FORD, 90, last surviving member of the Surrealist school of painters; in Inverness, California. The British-born painter studied in Paris during the 1930s, where he met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who introduced him to the Surrealist group lead by André Breton...
...course the U.S. should pursue free-trade policies. If the world's leading nation resorts to protectionism, what hope is there that others will open their borders? History shows that protection not only closes markets, but also minds (Germany in the 1930s). Free trade guarantees more choice, lower prices, and ultimately more jobs. Protection is only afforded to special interests who can lobby the government for unwarranted aid, as is the case in the steel industry in the U.S. and in Europe. Alexander Law Paris, France...