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Last fall the International Press Institute published a report on getting the news out of Russia (TIME, Oct. 13). One method recommended was the use of a "Russian desk" to read, analyze and sift news reports from Moscow, and to add to them an extra dimension of understanding. Quoting a British expert on the Soviet Union, the I.P.I, report said: "The sort of news one gets out of Moscow . . . by itself gives no picture at all . . . To one [who is] accustomed to reading between the lines and who already has a good firsthand picture of Russia, the official news...
TIME has had a Russian desk since 1946. Its senior member, Mark Vishniak, was born in Moscow, where he became a respected journalist and lawyer. He was a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and secretary-general of the constitutional assembly in 1918. The following year, with the Bolsheviks in power, Vishniak fled to France, and eventually to the U.S. To help dig out the story of what is really happening in Russia today, Vishniak relies on his close contacts with Russian exiles, a filing-cabinet memory of his own days in Russia, and constant reading of Russian periodicals...
...First Lady looked radiant and chic in a grey suit, handled herself with aplomb. After the picture-taking, she flashed a big smile at the ladies, sat down at a desk and said "Good morning." "Good morning, teacher," burbled the New York Times's Bess Furman. "That's just what I feel like," said Mamie. Then, as if she had done it a thousand times before, she reached for her engagement list and read it off, tea by inexorable tea. Among the coming events: a tea for Mary Pickford, with some old Pickford films ("I think...
Ever since Japan regained independence eleven months ago, 74-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida has had to battle his own political supporters as well as his opponents. Last week, in the Diet's lower house, Yoshida drummed his fingers on his desk while members filled up a black-lacquered box with yellow (aye) vote markers-and thereby kicked him out of office. Of the 229 Diet members who voted no confidence in Yoshida, 22 were members of his own Liberal Party; 218 Liberals stuck with their Premier...
From its beginning in 1932, Polaroid's bread & butter was photographic equipment and sunglasses. Soon he was making other glare-free devices-binoculars, desk lamps and railroad-car windows. Later, he brought out the phenomenally successful Polaroid Land Camera (TIME, May 30, 1949), which prints pictures within a minute after they are snapped. Last year, on sales of $13,400,000, up 45% in a year, Polaroid netted...