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...Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, who presented Said with a Russian proposal for oil concessions in northern Iran (TIME, Oct. 30). Said said no, but Kavtaradze would not take no for an answer. From Teheran, where he lingered, he denounced the head of Iran's Cabinet. From afar the Russian press echoed his charges that Said was a Russophobe reactionary. Vice Commissar Kavtaradze was also suspected of stirring up Iranians to denounce Said...
...more profoundly affected modern thought than the late, great Sigmund Freud. Yet few close-ups of Freud exist. The father of psychoanalysis has usually been seen from afar. Last week appeared a warmly intimate portrait of Freud: Master and Friend (Harvard University Press; $2.50), by Dr. Hanns Sachs of Harvard, a survivor of the early group of six close disciples...
Voice from Afar. That night Franklin Roosevelt sat before a microphone in his private railroad car on the West Coast. His voice blared into the convention hall from giant four-way amplifiers in the rafters of the stadium. As they listened, most of the delegates kept their eyes on the empty speaker's stand, where klieg lights were still focused. The effect was eerie...
...chute is 280 lbs., some of the Indians in full accoutrement weighed well over 350. No one was willing to make them lighten up. For a week before invasion they had been encamped near a Ninth Air Force Station, and their presence was perceptible from afar: they had taken an oath at Christmas time not to bathe until Dday. They cooked their own meals over campfires, slept on the ground without blanket or tent. Familiarized with jujitsu and dirty-fighting tactics devised by thugs of all nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers...
Lines and the Line. The Memorial's neoclassic lines, drawn by the late John Russell Pope, are out of tune with the times. From afar, it appears compact, forbidding, lonely as a mausoleum. From hard by, it is too huge, too white, too coldly monotonous. Yet it will stand as a great national monument, for inside is the spirit of a great...