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Everything lay under an acrid fog of blue smoke let off by the torches and flares. The assembled marching firemen. Cars hanging with streamers, pasted with signs. Banner-strung lamp posts. Photographers. Motorcycle policemen. Loudspeaker trucks. The crowds were restless. It was time...
...dark and the door opens. The figure enters. It pauses. It is a man wearing a greatcoat-putts down his collar. He goes to a small oil lamp and lights it. In the light we see Beria's face . . . The door creaks open . . . Another bundled figure enters the dacha . . . It is Malenkov...
...Tanya urged me to stay overnight. Without waiting for my consent she jumped up from the table, gave me an ardent kiss and began to undress. I turned out the lamp and also got undressed...
...vouch for the lamp whose shade was of human skin, as it was on my desk, as were several other unmounted pieces. The pieces of skin used for the lamp shades were those bearing large tattoos and were reportedly selected by "Use the Bitch" from the living inmates. The finished product was not unlike a heavy parchment, and all the items were collected by the War Crimes Commission...
...Tallulah Bankhead, 55, nursed a painful cut on the forearm. Tallu was alone at home, except for a maid and a young man whom she was considerately nursing through a case of hepatitis, when, in the middle of the night, she slashed her arm on the fragments of a lamp broken in a manner never adequately explained. Then-in her own roaring narrative-"three divine policemen, all six feet eight, came in. They couldn't have been more charming. They got me this sweet doctor and he took five stitches in my arm." While in minor surgery, she cried...