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...Moscow's favorite stories is about a bootblack from the Soviet Republic of Georgia who used to hang around the Kremlin gate refusing to shine shoes. "I only need to wait until my old Georgian neighbor Stalin comes along," the bootblack haughtily explained to Bolsheviks who sought a shine. "He will make me a Commissar or Ambassador at least...
That many a Georgian has wangled a soft job out of "neighbor Stalin" all Russia knows. Therefore disclosures that the record grafter of the of the entire Soviet Union has just been caught in Georgia were hailed with suppressed excitement last week. In Stalin's good graces, the No. 1 Grafter, whose name was not revealed, was a Communist Party member and director of a Georgian State vineyard. In four years he embezzled 500,000 rubles, lived in the luxury of an Asiatic Prince, and according to the Moscow press "actually called himself the 'Heir of the Mingrelian Princes...
...students. Last year 500 students occupied its five blue granite buildings and football stadium. A prime factor in the new growth has been Publisher William Randolph Hearst. He was Atlanta's largest personal subscriber in Dr. Jacobs' first drive, boomed the campaign loudly in his Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American. In 1927 he gave Oglethorpe $25,000 and his third son, John, as a student. Grateful Oglethorpe promptly gave Mr. Hearst an LL. D., the only university degree he has ever received. Two years later the grateful publisher gave Oglethorpe a 400-acre wooded tract, valued...
...manufacturers hope to tempt the public into renewed buying of modern furniture, which has toned down considerably since its introduction in 1928. Of the 20,000 pieces on exhibit at the mart, 26% were modern "functional" (extreme) and "classic" (toned down), 30% Early American, 23% commercial and nondescript, 10% Georgian, the rest Louis, Early English, Empire and Biedermeier...
Bright & early one morning Alexis Mdivani, best married of the three marrying Georgian princelings, left his rooms in London's swank Hotel Claridge and drove out to Ranelagh for some polo. No sooner had he left than his young wife, Barbara Hutton Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string...