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...According to the official Soviet account, Georgy Malenkov joined the party at 18, which sounds young enough. The fact is, he had sat prudently on the sidelines for two years (1918-20), though the Red army occupied his Ural home town of Orenburg; he enlisted under Lenin's banner only after the outcome of the civil war seemed clear...
...sooner had the first copies of Esquire reached Texas last week than columnists and editors all over the state let out a howl of protest-as Esquire had doubtless expected. The Houston Press streamed a banner across Page One: HEY, TEXANS! THEY'RE SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name...
When Philadelphia's Connelly Container Corp. went up in flames last January after a banner year ($7,000,000 in sales), all that Owner John F. Connelly could salvage from the wreckage was a water-soaked picture of his wife from his half-burned desk. It seemed that Connelly, who had founded his company in 1950 after quitting as Eastern sales manager for Container Corp. of America, would be out of business for some time...
...speeches. Armed national police, on the watch for assassins, faced alternately towards and away from the crowd, while plainclothesmen peeped out from behind the pillars of the Capitol building. Illness kept President Syngman Rhee confined to his house. But over the speaker's platform a huge muslin banner proclaimed his defiant message...
...Ukrainian patriots) but of "all Communists who have lost their vigilance." Three thousand local party secretaries went to the cellar or were shipped to Siberia; six of the Ukraine's twelve provinces got new party chiefs. Purger Khrushchev's prize was the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and full membership in the Politburo...