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Apprehensions and Rumors. This year Russians looked forward to Stalin's 90th birthday with none of the fabricated ardor of 1949, but with some apprehension. Dissidents warned that this decennial might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom...
When the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (A.S.C.A.P.) decided to celebrate Rudolf Friml's 90th birthday with a grand to-do at Manhattan's Shubert Theater, they couldn't locate him: he was on a concert tour in Europe. Deaf but spry, his hair still red, his piano playing still powerful, Friml gives his Chinese wife Kay, 56, credit for his fitness: "Some mornings I get up and she walks on my back." During the A.S.C.A.P. tribute, a chorus and soloists sang his hits, and Ogden Nash reminisced...
...reports, they have proved to be accurate. That only makes the newsletter's prediction about Stalin seem more significant. Issue No. 10, which has just begun to circulate in Russia, reports that the Soviet leaders are planning a major campaign to "rehabilitate" Stalin on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth next Dec. 21. Major articles in Pravda and Izvestia are in preparation, together with a four-volume edition of his works. Posters and a statue are also being made ready for the event. As if to confirm the Chronicle's prediction, two pictures of Stalin...
...Both Senators have generally subscribed to the President's Viet Nam policies, although Scott has been anxious for accelerated troop withdrawals. Both Scott and Griffin are liberal on civil rights. Last June, Scott attacked the Administration's positions on voting rights and school desegregation guidelines. During the 90th Congress, he voted less than half the time with the conservative Senate coalition. Scott's Republicanism is ecumenical. "There is room enough within the party for traditional conservatives, progressives, moderates and liberals," he says...
...young wife Joanna at his side, the gentle old man passed his 90th birthday at his home in West Redding, Conn. Edward Steichen, dean of the world's professional photographers, told a New York Times reporter what he has been doing. Mainly, he has been photographing a tree-a 20-ft. shadblow-in every phase of foliation for a color movie he is making. All that remains is to record his "friend" in a storm. "I freely admit that I'm in love with that little tree," he said. "I want the storm to buffet...