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...Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, captor of Sevsk. This blue-eyed, blond giant is one of the Red Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
Outstanding among these are the historic three who fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...
...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...
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...