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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STALIN: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (600 pp.)-Isaac Deufscher-Oxford...
This is Stalin's only available private letter, one of the few occasions when he is known to have indulged in spontaneous human sentiments. In later years he was not to waste much time with such "silly longings." As portrayed in Isaac Deutscher's painstakingly researched and austerely written biography, Stalin has spent most of his life cultivating a steel fagade and suppressing any public sign of human frailty or fraternity-proper training for a modern dictator with pretentions to omniscience...
When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat broke. Fumbling old Isaac was crushed, but his tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...
Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 3 sides). The six parts of this suite were originally written for voice and piano; in this transcription, Violinist Stern catches every flicker of flame arid fillip of flavor. Falla at his Spanish best. Recording: excellent...