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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farms into private holdings. To emphasize the importance of Zhdanov's twin tasks Stalin, ailing at Sochi on the Black Sea, let Zhdanov have the place of honor on Lenin's tomb (see cut) at the Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 revolution. (A typical and revealing excerpt from Zhdanov's speech the night before: "It is precisely those remnants of capitalism in the people's consciousness we must still overcome and extirpate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Excerpt: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and gray eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lincoln to El Greco | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Excerpt form Pie Magazine, December 1946, in an article entitled "The Way I Look at College Men," in which select pin-up girls were asked their opinions on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

...what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading as developments, one of which has Myra's daughter play the thirty-third excerpt from the Concerto, Myra discovers that she doesn't love Concnoff after all but has always a loved her husband. Careful observers yesterday noted the resemblance between this sentiment and the picture's title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Large sections of the article (which was an excerpt from Elliott's forthcoming book As He Saw It) were printed in the London press. Snorted the Daily Mirror: "The book proves nothing except that great men often have silly sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Secretaries & Sons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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