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Russians were particularly warned against Moscow's diplomatic cocktail circuit, where, said Pravda darkly, Western spymasters recruit new talent. Warned Pravda: "That was how they got hold of Penkovsky, and the same thing may happen to anyone who, in his blindness, nibbles at the bait the imperialists so lavishly toss out." Izvestia chimed in with an acid-etched portrait of the kind of comrade the imperialists are looking for. Dubbing him "Punkovsky"-for punk-Izvestia reported that this unsavory type cherishes a never-ending stream of gold-embossed invitations to diplomatic receptions, where he can be spotted...
...Soviet people are not inclined to see a spy in every foreigner," officials insisted. Nonetheless, they warned, if foreign diplomats and newsmen continue to invite Punkovskys and Penkovskys to their parties, "real, honest Soviet people" might boycott them altogether. To show that its diatribes were not just cocktail talk, the government last week stripped Artillery Chief Marshal Sergei Varenstov of his rank for having befriended Penkovsky, disciplined some of "the scientist's other friends and boozing companions." "Of course," added Pravda, "we are against spy mania...
Forgotten Image. A refreshing contrast to all the cocktail-hour psychology has come from an unlikely quarter. Twentieth Century-Fox, looking for nothing deeper than solvency, has assembled an absorbing synopsis of the Marilyn Monroe that was often overlooked-the one on the screen...
...traffic in books. Plungers and chiselers alike, I'd found, were less corrupt than Definitive Authorities on D. H. Lawrence. The corruption of the sporting crowd was that of trying to get two tens for a five off you, but the corruption of the throngs of the cocktail Kazins went deeper." For the non-inside dopester, Alfred Kazin is an able and dedicated critic guilty of nothing much worse than occupational attacks of solemnity...
...despises corrupt literary cocktail parties, Algren seems to have survived a lot of them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might...