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...Potsdam said, with equal certainty, that Stalin looked alert, active, somewhat younger than his age. Moscow reports last week had him laughing heartily, talking animatedly, doodling enthusiastically between translations. Visiting U.S. Congressmen said he was in fine fettle. Russians quizzed on his health said only: "Stalin is a Georgian. Georgians live forever...
...Oblivion. Perhaps it was more of an adieu than Trollope expected. Throughout the Naughty Nineties and the Edwardian and Georgian eras, Trollope's 41 novels were considered as dead as their author. As late as 1929 a student could win a master's degree in 19th Century English literature at Columbia University without being required to read a word of Trollope. Not until the 1930s did the first stirrings of reviving interest come; not until the first years of World War II did Trollope's stock begin, very perceptibly, to rise again...
...Texan who ran the Women's Army Corps for three crowded years passed her colonel's eagles over to another woman. Then she embraced her staff, patted her carefully coiffed, blue-tinted hair and, moist-eyed, departed. Awaiting her in Houston, Tex., were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning: "My mission . . . has been completed." The strength of the WAC stood at 100,000; WACs were serving...
...Georgian Terrace Hotel, Courtney Hodges and his bemedaled and beribboned entourage got out of their cars. A tall, grey-haired woman wearing a bright red hat and a corsage of orchids leaned forward as they passed. She called to the General: "Remember me?" The General's sunburnt face lit up. He stopped to give his wife a kiss-the first time he had seen her in 15 months. Then he climbed the platform to make the first of many speeches...
...Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary . . ." (TIME, Feb. 5). The Georgian Seminary at Tiflis, which was attended by Stalin, was neither Jesuit nor even Roman Catholic, but was, like the people of Georgia, Greek Orthodox...