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...week: Colonel Frank Kelso Hyatt, 67, third president of the Pennsylvania Military College-the school his grandfather and his father ran before him. A rugged, grey-haired man who once, as a captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard Cavalry, set something of a record by riding 17 horses, Cossack-style, Hyatt has seen his campus grow from 150 to 600 cadets, has watched over every student from reveille to taps. Last week, as he stepped down, the PMC corps staged a full dress parade in his honor. "I thought to myself," said Colonel Hyatt, "this is the last time...
...tough, 50-year-old Politburocrat who has shot up through the party like a skunk cabbage (he weighs 250 Ibs.). In the past, the post of chief "reporter" has been held only by Lenin and Stalin. This signal honor is further evidence that Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack and long regarded in the West as Stalin's most probable successor, is moving closer & closer to the top. Malenkov used to be Stalin's personal secretary, is said to have a phenomenal memory capable of recalling at will details of the dossiers Stalin keeps in his private files...
Soviet moviemakers know their box office. Copenhagen audiences last week were seeing a Soviet-made horse opera that managed to combine cowboys with horse racing and a hearty helping of World War II anti-German propaganda, all wrapped lumpily into ten reels. The story of Kosakhest (Cossack Horse): A Cossack cowboy enters his horse in a race against a jockey who is after the cowboy's girl. But war begins and the jockey turns out to be a saboteur who escapes to Nazi lines after wounding the cowboy. The clever horse, who apparently can do everything but dance...
Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...
Fenton carted his equipment ashore in the Crimea in March 1855, set about photographing the war by starting with the jumble of ships at the British harbor base of Cossack Bay, Balaklava. venton's slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace...