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Never in really good health since 1936, Stalin had a bad heart attack at Potsdam, Budu says. In addition, he suffers from asthma and insomnia. He was in a state of collapse after the Yalta Conference, where, says Budu again, the "Churchill-Stalin vodka-drinking duel had been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin...
...made?" At 45, when he met Ellen Ternan, a blue-eyed actress of 18, he thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought...
...tradition of most Westerns, Pony Soldier opens with a bloody battle and ends with a more personalized duel between the hero and four menacing savages. Between the two extremes of the movie Power spends the rest of his time looking sternly at the Indians, refusing to lot them bluff him, and smoking several sacks of Bull Durham in a succession of pow-wows...
...teams from Mexico, France, Ireland, Canada and the U.S. The chief competitors: Mexico's famed Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 1948 Olympic champion, and France's brilliant Pierre d'Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel-but it was for secondary honors. The surprise star of the show, breaking a longtime Mexican monopoly: young (27) Billy Steinkraus of Westport, Conn., far & away the most glittering amateur rider to come up in the U.S. for years...