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...Black Seas. Marshal Fedor von Bock was apparently taking the classic invasion route, by way of the Caspian coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black Sea coast, where the mountains almost tumble into the sea. The second was the Georgian Military Road, twisting up through narrow defiles and a pass 7,823 feet high before it falls southward to Tiflis. The third, equally precipitous, crosses the same range between the coastal route and the Georgian Highway...
...headquarters at the British Embassy's Stary Dom house. His first meeting with Stalin lasted three hours and 40 minutes. The descendant of the fighting Dukes of Marlborough, trained in the sportsmanlike traditions of British colonial warfare and the superficially polite exchanges of British politics, finally faced the Georgian peasant who learned about politics in years of underground conspiracy and bloody revolution...
...Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their proper places...
...held at Winthrop House last night. But neither can University Hall solve it by holding "the individual students responsible for participation in any public disturbance." As a matter of fact, it is rank idealism to assume that the antagonism can be wiped out altogether. As long as beautiful Georgian architecture casts its stately shadow on the slums of De Wolfe Street; as long as tweed coats and white-wall tires give life and breath to the spirit of "Gold Coast"; as long as University property is untaxed, the problem will exist. But it need not manifest itself in the form...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill...