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TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. Making masterly use of mountains of documents and diaries, the Russian-born biographer forges an unforgettable portrait of one of literature's greatest figures...
Youngest Admiral. Born in the Ukraine, Gorshkov joined the navy when he was 17, and graduated from Leningrad's Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of Annapolis, four years later. When war broke out, he was the commander of a handful of antiquated cruisers and assorted small craft in the Black Sea. As the German invaders rushed toward the oilfields of the Caucasus, Gorshkov became expert at amphibious operations, plucking trapped Soviet troops from the Crimean coasts and landing them farther eastward to fight again...
...contrast, the Negroes unconsciously adopted the role of the aggressor. "Whites aren't as good. The white people slide; we glide. We have natural born rhythm. They can't dance. Can't sing soul. We're naturally strong. And we got better girls...
...than a prose treatment of the same subject, and on what the opposite of a labyrinth (Borges' central metaphor) is. "Borges and Us" is a marked improvement over the days when Island editors asked Mary Poppins' creator, in issue number two, "First of all, Miss Travers, where were you born...
Died. Viscount Kemsley, 84, one of Britain's most powerful press lords until he sold most of his empire to Lord Thomson for $14 million in 1959; following an asthma attack; in Monte Carlo. Born James Gomer Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...