Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard fact was that Molotov and Mikoyan, among the few surviving Old Bolsheviks, remained as members of the Politburo. The probability, as Correspondent Joseph Newman cabled the New York Herald Tribune through the Moscow censorship, was that they were in line for "more important work"-not demoted but promoted. Stalin is 69; he has said publicly that his health is not good. He must plan on some sort of succession...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's old China Hand A. T. ("Arch") Steele: "These [Communists] no longer are the same easily approachable people they were during the salad days at Yenan . . . No foreigner here has succeeded in meeting any [important] Communist . . . What is not clear is how much this [standoffishness] is a calculated policy...
Managing Editor Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark of Hearst's Chicago Herald-American saw a way to combine a good deed and a good story. He got his labor editor to talk to big Mike Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
...concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning. His performance left the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson "a little gasping. One is not used to this kind of work from violinists...
...Herald to the contrary, "Acis and Galatea" will not open until next Wednesday night...