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...General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
Chicago was "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum." There Author Miller saw an Indian, in full regalia, selling snake oil in the shadow of "the great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week...
...love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum...
Radar was only half the story of electronic war. The other half was "counter-radar"-that elaborate series of Allied tricks and dodges to gum up the enemy's radar. Secret until last week, counter-radar had cost the U.S. more than $300 million. But it saved many times that amount in ships and planes. -Headquarters for counter-radar was Harvard's Biological Laboratory. The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice...
Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square...