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...Baku, en route to Moscow, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Richard Lauterbach was followed in the street by as many as 70 children, asking questions about the U.S. Militiamen finally had to break up the crowd. Adults also were voluble and curious. Russian questions...
From Baku one train daily now runs to Moscow via Rostov and Kharkov, cutting the south-north trip by two to three days. At the Baku station, Lauterbach asked why the first-class waiting room was filled with officers only. Replied the stationmaster: "It would cost too much to build a room like this for everyone now. It's a matter of time. After the war we'll build a big, beautiful one for all. Now it's obviously impossible, so privileges must go to a few with the people's consent...
Roosevelt and Churchill, Lauterbach found, are extremely popular, and everywhere people ask about them and praise them. In the countryside, their names are known better than those of any but the dozen top Soviet leaders...
Maps and Money. Moscow, Lauterbach reported, seems vaster, busier, more confident than it was eight years ago when he last saw it. "The people look thinner, laugh less. Nearly everybody has a member of his immediate family wounded or killed. The war is followed closely and intently by families scrutinizing the great colored wall maps which hang everywhere. I searched Moscow for a week for a map and finally found a store that expected a shipment in the morning. The map is not good but sold out a thousand in a few hours...
What has happened to Harvard since the Worcester game is also a moot point. Swede Anderson, Joe Lauterbach, George Hibbard, and Steve Mallett have departed, and, while the addition of Paul and Red Perkins to the squad list has bolstered the team immeasurably, it's hard to fill four holes in a regular team...