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...Lenin made Molotov Second Secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...
...changes after Stalin's death, the eight-day offensive was bewildering, welcome, sinister. Statesmen, pundits and plain reporters marshaled and studied the facts. What did they portend? A basic change of attitude in the U.S.S.R.? An elaborate maneuver to screen further aggressions from the world? A deadly feud among Stalin's heirs? Except for the party-liners and the starry-eyed (who joined in saluting the peaceful intentions of Malenkov & Co.), no man could get to an answer. But there were some tantalizing speculations to be made...
Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
...Marriage. Trotsky skyrocketed into world prominence as organizer and Commissar of the Red army in the civil war. Stalin, in charge of the defense of Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad), kept up a running feud with Trotsky and carried the war, against orders, into his native Georgia. In these violent days, he was married a second time, to Nadezhda Allilueva. the pretty daughter of the Petrograd worker in whose house he had once been arrested...