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Reuter was a Prussian who became a pacifist. He was a Socialist who knew what Communism was about, because he had once been a Communist. Fighting on the Russian front in World War I, he was wounded and captured by the Czar's army. They set him to work in the coal mines, south of Moscow. The Red Revolution freed him, and Nikolai Lenin himself made Reuter a commissar in the new U.S.S.R. His boss in the Commissariat of Nationalities was Joseph Stalin, whom he afterwards dismissed as a man with "the mind of a sergeant...
...Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that Turkey was indeed "the sick man of Europe." Exactly 100 years later, an astute and wealthy Texan named George McGhee, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, looked out over the green plains of Anatolia and said: "You know what this country reminds me of? It's got the stuff, the git up and go, and it's rolling. Why, Turkey today is just like Texas...
Died. Margaret Anna Bird Insull, 80, widow of Samuel Insull, onetime Midwest utilities czar; in Chicago. A noted Broadway beauty, she married Insull in 1899, and became a princess of Chicago society. She tried in vain to make a stage comeback at 42, ten years later sank $200,000 in a benefit production of The School for Scandal. In 1932, when the $3 billion Insull empire disintegrated, she fled to Europe with her husband, later urged him to surrender and face trial on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement. During Insull's famed trials and acquittals...
...Under Communism, the people are getting even less meat and dairy foods than under the Czar. Russia's human population has climbed 50% in the past 37 years (to 210 million), but its livestock supply has fallen 2.6%. The hard figures (in millions) as given by Khrushchev...
Died. Frederick Moore Vinson, 63, Chief Justice of the U.S. since 1946, wartime federal economic czar and longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1924-29, 1931-38); of a heart attack; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...