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...Pygmy Cosmopolitan." Moscow's biggest literary furor in months was prompted by another Evtushenko poem, Bdbiy Yar, named for a ravine near Kiev where the Nazis massacred 52,000 Jews. In a moving lament that was also a call to resist the anti-Semitism of Khrushchev's Russia, Poet Evtushenko-who is not Jewish-mourned...
...feature for the October issue: an "exclusive" and interminable study of Monaco's Princess Grace. Was the Journal's editorial lure a mite shopworn? Princess Grace has already been X-rayed to exhaustion by LIFE (1956). Collier's (1957). Look (1956. 1957. 1959. 1961). Redbook (1958). Cosmopolitan (1957, 1958), Coronet (1960) and the Saturday Evening Post (1960). Presumed moral: Never overestimate the power of a woman...
THERE IS A DRAGON IN MY BED (by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Irene Haas; Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is the kind of book that separates the privileged U child from the underprivileged non-U brat. It is bilingual, featuring first-reader French for cosmopolitan moppets. Two tykes, a boy and a girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh...
When farm-bred Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin departed Moscow shortly after his successful orbit for a triumphal trek through Czechoslovakia, a West German wire service marveled: "It's Gagarin's first trip abroad." By last week, three months and several countries later, the newly cosmopolitan cosmonaut had polished his terrestrial technique, suavely met his Finnish public in a preview of this week's speechifying appearance at the Soviet Trade Fair in London...
...used to be the rubes' sport, shunned by city sophisticates but drawing as many as 2,500,000 fans a year at hundreds of fairgrounds across the U.S. Today, thanks to such swank night tracks as Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, harness racing is thriving on cosmopolitan crowds and city slickers anxious to make a $2 wager. Last year it was an $819 million business, drawing 15 million spectators and dishing out $32 million in purses to the cream of 17,702 trotters and pacers...