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...decayed family who "probably made their money out of the Black Death" (1348-49); he is currently spending the last of the Black Death bonanza in sponsoring left-wing causes, and is suspected of hoping that when his estate is turned into a collective farm, he will be its commissar instead of hereditary lord...
...Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of boxing. Wallman's tigers won all the bouts; Judge Grant is accused of making sure they did. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended both men, banned Wallman's fighters, including Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Middleweight Randy Sandy and Featherweight Ike Chestnut...
...police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years...
Half of the ten Polish writers brought together in this book are living in exile. That is probably inevitable, since none of them seems to be gifted with the kind of talent a cultural commissar would find useful. The only line to which they hew is their personal vision of life. Except for two, these are stories born of a sad understanding of man's fate. Joseph Conrad is by that reason not too far removed from these countrymen of his. There is in some of them the same underlying Slavic brooding, the recognition that...
...decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Now Bulganin took a seat in the second...