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JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. 418 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...time of Kirov's murder, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg was 27 years old, a happily married mother of three children, a loyal party member, and a schoolteacher and journalist in Kazan in eastern Russia. At that time, also, there was published a four-volume History of the All-Union Communist Party, which, in its coverage of the 1905 Czarist terrors, displeased Stalin; it contained certain "errors" in connection with the theory of permanent revolution. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg...
...Died. Eugenia Childs Westmoreland, 81, mother of General William Westmoreland, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, a tiny (5 ft.), genteel Southern lady who recently greeted talk of her son as presidential timber with a pert, "Oh my, he's too young to be President"; of congestive heart failure; in Columbia...
TWIGGY: WHY? (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Marshall McLuhan, Eugenia Sheppard, British Fashion Photographer David Bailey and others comment on the Twiggy phenomenon in Britain and the U.S. Film clips of her recent capers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...columnists reported her every move; the trade papers began running endless features on "The Gray Flannel Gal" and "The Wondrous World of W.R.G." Soon Sunday supplements, weeklies, even the prestige business magazines were weighing in with more talk about "the most talked-about agency." Last August Syndicated Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard went so far as to coo that Mary Wells's "soft, thrilling voice makes the maddest ideas seem perfectly possible"-extravagant praise, since at the time W.R.G. had just begun to produce its first...