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...last week, critics who knew Bunin's work thought him a better-than-average choice. Soviet sympathizers declared the award "political," wanted to know why, if the Nobel Committee had decided to honor a Russian, they had not picked Russia's No. 1 contemporary writer. Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki...
...just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline went to Deauville with Andre, to Montparnasse with Alexei, with Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend the rest of her life in a harem, but boredom...
Experimental Thanatology. A few physiologists are studying the causes of death and ways of retarding them. Most noted is Russia's Alexei Kuliabko. Noted too is France's Eusebio Adolfo Hernandez, who urged the Congress to organize an international organization for Experimental Thanatology...
...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
Presiding and directly representing the Third International sat Comrade Rykov, said to be a relative of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Alexei Ivanovich Rykov. To him the assembled agents reported their activities and successes of the past twelvemonth, particularly with reference to the establishment of "Communist Cells" or nuclei in the principal armies and navies of the world...