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...obscurity in warehouses where they had languished unseen since before World War II. Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Ceramics at Sevres surrendered their treasures. Bequests given long ago to the state on condition that they be shown intact -- the collections of Gachet, Chauchard, Kaganovitch, Personnaz and others -- were also folded into Orsay. In all, the museum's holdings comprise 2,300 paintings and 250 pastels, 1,500 sculptures, 1,100 miscellaneous art objects from furniture to enamel plaquettes, 13,000 photographs (a collection built from scratch in the past eight years) and a large...
Canada's peripatetic External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, bandying spirit-of-Geneva small talk with Soviet big shots during a social visit to Moscow last week, clinked champagne glasses with Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovitch and pitched a slow-curve bon mot: "We in Canada have an interesting geographical position in the world-between the Soviet Union and the United States . . . You might say we are the ham in the sandwich." Suggested Kaganovitch politely: "Or perhaps a good bridge?" "Well," agreed Pearson, "perhaps that's a nicer way of putting...
...scarcely more relevant than those eagerly reported from wartime visitors to Moscow: that Stalin speaks Russian with a thick Georgian accent; that he has been thrice married, that his present wife, Rosa, is the sister of the Vice President of the Council of the People's Commissars, Lazar Kaganovitch; that Stalin is rather formal with his sons (one of whom is a German prisoner) but occasionally romps with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad to his offices in the Kremlin; that he rests...
...their hurry to finish up everything as fast as possible, Russians have worked themselves into a state of five-year-planic. Two months ago Joseph Stalin sent his hard-boiled henchman, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch, to tell the frenzied subway builders of Moscow that they were going too fast. "I am displeased with so much rush work!" roared Comrade Kaganovitch. "Also Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well...
...displeased with so much rush work!" boomed Comrade Kaganovitch. "Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well. You must work not to open the subway on time but for permanence and utility of the line...