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Despite this disarmingly candid appeal, readers should be warned not to rush to the flamboyant Armenian's fiscal relief unless they are incurable addicts of the wacky, the whimsical and the whopperish. Only in Saroyan, perhaps, could one meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates...
...attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies...
Following in the Asian steps of those two jolly Communist gospelers, Khrushchev and Bulganin, a Russian evangelist of a different sort flew into New Delhi last week. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, an adroit Armenian trader, was greeted by Nehru in the midst of the Hindu spring festival of Holi, grinned in the standard circuit-riding Russian impersonation of a fine fellow as India's Premier smeared his forehead and Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov's face with vermilion in traditional observance of India's lighthearted Holiday. Then, with his 50 experts, Russia's No. 1 missionary...
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom. Later, Sir John's Armenian housekeeper found Sophocleous standing between Sir John's and Lady Harding's twin beds, rewinding the electric cord on the machine. Why wasn't he vacuuming? Said Sophocleous: "I have done all that is necessary." That night, while his army patrolled the city in Land Rovers with Sten guns at the ready, Sir John slept a round eight hours...
Delivering the most outspoken attack on Stalinist distortions of the past, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian economist, singled out the name of an all-but-forgotten Stalin victim named Kossior as an example of the kind of injustice done by one-man leaders. What made his name significant was that Kossior, a Ukrainian leader who lost out in the late '30s, was purged so that Nikita Khrushchev could get his job. The new collective leaders are not above such instructive hints to one another...