Word: alliluyeva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Harper & Row; $10). A chilling testimony from Stalin's daughter...
...only a journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis' luxurious dacha, complete with sauna, clay tennis court and thermostatic wine cellar, suggests a more generous source of income than journalism. Yet Louis heatedly denies any KGB connection and last week professed dismay at the Salisbury...
...small town that has housed such notable transients as Albert Einstein and Svetlana Alliluyeva, McPhee is an oddity: a celebrated Princeton native. "I wouldn't stay here if my work didn't take me away for such extended periods," he says. "This place is my fixed foot." A staff writer at The New Yorker ("The job translates as 'unsalaried freelance'") since 1965, McPhee enjoys a freedom from deadlines that would tempt most journalists into sloth and several other deadly sins. Not McPhee. Reporting completed and notes arranged, he marches into a routine now familiar to members...
...mainly refugees from Communism. They often had to make their break suddenly, and even some of the most celebrated are motivated by a simple sense of survival. Svetlana Alliluyeva, only daughter of Joseph Stalin, now living quietly in Princeton, N.J., says that the very idea of revisiting her homeland would be "ridiculous, to think that someone who got out of prison would want to go back to prison." Czech Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, now playing at Wimbledon but resident in Los Angeles, says scornfully that native-born Americans "don't know what they've got. Anybody that complains about life...
Divorced. Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 47, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, who made headlines in 1967 by defecting to the U.S. and minor literary ripples with her memoirs of life with papa; and William Wesley Peters, 60, chief architect of the Wright Foundation and former husband of Frank Lloyd Wright's late daughter Svetlana; after three years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz. Svetlana Alliluyeva married Peters after a three-week courtship, then left him because of her objections to life in the architecture community, Taliesin West...