Word: konstantine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
...Russia's "Men of War": one of its stars is Master of the Don, Colonel General Rokossovsky-50 and a major in the Czarist Army. Ralph Parker, the New York Timesman in Moscow . . . reported on Feb. 1 that Rokossovsky is 38. This would make spectacular Konstantin a major at 9 and a Red Army fighter...
...Army headquarters was moved five times. At one stage the Russian position seemed so hopeless that Lieut. General Vassili Chuikov, who commanded the Sixty-Second Army under Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, ordered his chief of staff to cross to the east bank of the Volga. His chief refused and said: "We will win or die together...
Master of the Don is Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, 50, one of the tallest (6 ft. 4 in.) officers in the Red Army. He was a Czarist major in the last war, joined the Red Guards in 1917. During the defense of Moscow he commanded the central sector on the Smolensk highway, later was shifted to the south. His armies were part of the Red pincers which trapped the Germans at Stalingrad. Now he is mopping up the Don Bend...
This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow's Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner...