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...Barry Bunin (C) d. Sam Cole...
Almost everyone agrees, though, that challenge matches are the only fair wayfor coach Dave Fish to settle the squad's lineup. As Bunin said, "I hate 'em, but I think you have to have some of them...
...Becoming the first Russian writer to win it since 1933, when Ivan Bunin received the award in self-exile in France...
Russian literature, a powerful weapon in the Russian people's struggle for liberation from the Czars, was plunged into confusion after the establishment of the Soviet state. Many famous authors (Kuprin, Bunin) went into exile voluntarily; disillusionment led others (Yesenin, Mayakovsky) to suicide. To give literature drive and direction, and broaden its appeal, the party formed the Union of Soviet Writers, headed by famed Maxim Gorky. But Gorky's optimistic ideas about "socialist realism" did not suit Stalin. The dictator found his man in Fadeyev, the steely-eyed...
Died. Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, 83, self-exiled Russian nobleman-author (The Village, Memories and Portraits) and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature, of a heart attack; in Paris...