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...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Paulina Karpovskaya Zhemchuzhina, wife of Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, acted as a judge at a Moscow fashion show. The no-fuss-&-feathers prizewinners were designs suitable for mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Soviet Cosmetics Queen was, however, in the U. S. on business, traveling under the incognito of Olga Karpovskaya. Up to 1934 her cosmetics were unfashionable in bread-hungry Russia, and Moscow newsorgans sharply ridiculed the cosmetics trust without mentioning the fact that its head was wife of the President of the Council. In those dark days Mme Molotov used no cosmetics herself, dressed in knitted caps, dark suits and belted raincoats. Last week, Joseph Stalin's views on Fun-for-the-Masses having been changed by better times, Mme Molotov could cheerfully tell U. S. newshawks through an interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Grim Queen | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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