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...Muse of History, gets her diary up to date, whom will she write down as the Man of the 20th Century? Barring the unlikely appearance, before 2000, of an extraordinarily effective saint or major prophet, the Man of the Century will be a German intellectual, devoted to children, caviar and Aeschylus...
Austerity was the keynote of the London office's Christmas, and most members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers...
Bread. Shipmates had noted that Panyushkin, who suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...
Toasted in Absence. At 9 o'clock the Foreign Ministers, each with ten members of his staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay...
...from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best...