Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the bland smile had been a watchful eye, appraising his audience well, and judging what should and should not be done during Khrushchev's and Bulganin's visit a fortnight hence. He had seen the unanimous press attack on Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov, denouncing Serov as a "thug," "butcher" and "murderer" when Serov flew in last month to check security arrangements for K. & B. And though Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik had said repeatedly that Serov would nonetheless accompany K. & B., Moscow last week discreetly dropped the head terrorist from the list of top Communists coming...
...Month in the Country (adapted from the Russian of Ivan Turgenev by Emlyn Williams) has for some strange reason been a theatrical wallflower, while Chekhov's four daughters have constantly been given a whirl. Last produced in Manhattan in 1930, A Month remains one of those small classics that, however long kept in mothballs, keep their charming bouquet. The play needs-as the Phoenix Theater has given it-a sensitive production: Michael Redgrave has ably directed an able cast, and Emlyn Williams' adaptation is in crisply laundered English...
...spectacular arrival in England last week of General Ivan Serov, boss of Russia's dread secret police (see FOREIGN NEWS), was in sharp contrast to his discreet entry into India and Burma last December-when TIME first turned a journalistic spotlight on him. During the early part of that tour with Khrushchev and Bulganin, Serov managed to remain always close at hand but as unobtrusive as a plainclothesman. At state functions and banquets he was billed on programs and place cards simply as I. Serov. This meaningful name on the list of the Khrushchev-Bulganin entourage sent TIME...
...Communist-country radio broadcasts and interview refugees from behind the curtain. From these and other private sources, Ball was able to help us flesh out the file for our story, "The Third Man" (TIME, Dec. 19), the first hard look U.S. readers have had at General of the Army Ivan Alexandrovich Serov...
Restyling the Future. With regimented unity, the Congress delegates approved the new bosses' nominations for the powerful Central Committee-53 of the 133 names were new, many of them Khrushchev proteges. Among those promoted: Diplomat Andrei (Stony-Face the Younger) Gromyko and Police Boss Ivan Serov...