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...Author. John Donald Wade, a Georgian, is descended from "a long line of vigorous Methodists." In his life of Methodism's founder he has not so much bitten the hand that fed him as examined it coolly, skeptically. Member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University, he is also an assistant editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, is regarded by fellow-Southerners as one of the coming men in a possible Southern literary renaissance...
...what was once the palace of Tsar Nicholas' viceroy of Georgia-the land where Stalin was born. Primarily the palace is now occupied by the Soviet government of the transCaucasian Republic, plastered with posters and slogans relating to the Five-Year Plan. Correspondent Knickerbocker was told that Georgian schoolchildren speak of Stalin as "the man who annexed Russia to Georgia...
When Stalin's grey-haired mother appeared, she wore a common Georgian peasant dress of grey wool, peered at her unexpected U. S. visitor and his Georgian interpreter, dropped them a curtsey, motioned hospitably toward chairs, apologized for having no tea or coffee to offer, apologized also for speaking only Georgian...
...Soso? Why that's my son Josef. Soso is our Georgian pet name for Josef. Yes, he was always a good boy. I never had to punish...
...true cross-section has been achieved. Lowell and Dunster have representative groups, but Adams House has stolen a march on them both and will house its students in a architectural cross-section. Mid-Victorian Russell will be linked to Fourteenth century Statler Westmorly by a Georgian dining hall which boasts Greek pillars. Across the street the German Renaissance Randolph, holding within its womb early colonial Apthorp will complete a grouping of perfect harmony. It is the spirit of the House Plan...