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...Kollontay, 74 (also known as the Madame Pompadour of the Russian Revolution), came a bit of rhapsodic reminiscence: "I remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from the river rattled the panes. One electric lamp burned dimly over a small table around which the Committee members met. The situation was tense. ... On Lenin's right sat Stalin in his dark Russian shirt, his silent self-possession forming a strong contrast to the excited tirades of some of our number. . . . Stalin was the very personification...
...said archy he took a swipe at me with a rolled up newspaper. he knocked over a table and a nice lamp, so they threw him out of there...
...clasping a long bamboo pole in his right hand and flanked by four companions, Gandhi set out on a walking tour of Bengal's Noakhali district. On his "last and greatest" experiment, the Mahatma said he would visit 26 Moslem villages, would seek to rekindle the lamp of "neigh-borliness" quenched in that area (and in much of India) by blood...
...same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile of his own drawings to keep warm...
...miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses...