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Nonetheless, he seems to have a streak of what can only be described as anti-Americanism. Perhaps the first American to have an extended conversation with him was John Chrystal, chairman of Bankers Trust of Des Moines and a frequent traveler to the Soviet Union, who called on Gorbachev in 1981. Says Chrystal: "He does believe, never having been here, that the U.S. has abject poverty and quite a lot of it. My impression is that he thinks there are whole towns that are just sort of destitute." Eugene Whelan, the former Canadian Agriculture Minister who was later Gorbachev...
...chosen to give the keynote address at the April 22, 1983, ceremony honoring Lenin's birthday, a speech characterized by a calm, businesslike approach to national problems. Gorbachev is also said to have been given the additional responsibility of helping to make party personnel decisions. When John Chrystal, an Iowa businessman, was received at the Kremlin in November, it was Gorbachev who passed along a message from the ailing Soviet leader. Had Andropov lived longer, Gorbachev might have been groomed as heir, but his relative youth could keep him from assuming power this time around...
Ancestry: His grandfather, Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, came to the U.S. in 1865 and changed his name to Harry Warren. Halvar's Norwegian-born son, Methias, and Swedish-born Chrystal Hernlund, who met and married in California in the 1880s, were Earl Warren's parents. Methias became master car repairman for a division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, turned into a mortgage-foreclosing recluse in his later years, was bludgeoned to death in his lonely Bakersfield, Calif, home in 1938. The motive was believed to be robbery; the crime has never been solved...
...radio drama whose acts were divided, not with the usual fading and swelling of music, but with a rumbling sound as of an oldtime curtain going up & down. The play was The Minute Men of 1774-5, by James A. Herne, 19th Century playwright, father of Actresses Julie and Chrystal Herne. NBC's actors carefully did not burlesque this story of Minute Man Reuben Foxglove's beauteous ward, Dorothy, who turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute...
...stage version of Craig's Wife, produced by Rosalie Stewart, climaxed the career of Actress Chrystal Herne. The screen version exhibits to good advantage the talents of two other ladies. Her brilliantly vitriolic portrayal as Mrs. Craig is likely to be a turning point for Actress Rosalind Russell, heretofore noted for her smooth handling of light comedy roles. The work of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's only woman director, is equally distinguished for giving pace without apparent effort to a picture that might, with less expert treatment, have seemed pedestrian...