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...Insurance. In Fort Atkinson, Wis.. Mrs. Adelaine Hill reached 107, still "strong and healthy, maybe because I wear two petticoats...
Sardonic New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson last week took advantage of Moscow's new freedom from censorship to get a few things about Russia off his chest. He noted the "fatuous satisfaction" in the Russian press over Soviet Russia's soccer victory in England (TIME, Nov. 26), and quoted a sample from the Moscow News: "Would it not, perhaps, be well to get to know us better? Better knowledge of us might, perhaps, help foreign observers understand other things about us besides sports...
Father Laberge found an intellectual challenge in Russia's godless masses. In the contour of the city itself he saw an exotic, refreshing beauty. Last week with the qualification that his views were personal and unofficial, he told Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "The buildings have real style. I never saw a place like this before. The view of the Kremlin from the river is extremely beautiful. Most people only think of the Kremlin in austere terms...
What Goes On? Wrote the New York Times'? able, ironic Brooks Atkinson: "What is going on around here, anyway? . . . [It] is like walking out of a dark room into blinding sunlight. . . . It takes time to learn how to use freedom...
...American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...