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Host Molotov was plainly irritated at his fellow party Presidium member, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who, despite repeated shushings, insisted on proposing toast after toast, while waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...Artists) is pretty well taken care of in the words of a six-year-old boy who saw the picture. "It got sad in the middle," he said, "but it happiered at the end." The suggestion of a fallen cake, sunk under the weight of its unassimilated sugar, fits Lazar Wechsler's film as well as Johanna Spyri's book (here done in film for the second time), but young children will probably like the one as well as they do the other. Heidi herself is freshly, simply played by Elsbeth Sigmund, and her crusty grandfather is done...
...Harry S. Truman who . . . still had the courage to stand up to his accusers. To go before the American people as he did, and explain the reasons why he did the things he was accused of, took undeniable courage, whether right or wrong. MARK A. LAZAR, D.D.S. Newark
...third among the Soviet bigwigs attending a recent Chinese exhibit in Moscow; he was also No. 3 in the communique announcing new Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...
...Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, 60, Deputy Premier, holds no specific ministry, will probably continue as the Kremlins roving economic troubleshooter. Last remaining jew in the hierarchy. Born to a poor family in the Ukraine graduated from elementary school became a shoemaker at 14, a Bolshevik at 18 (in 1911). An effective job of handling touchy minorities in Turkestan in 1920 won Stalin's attention and a summons to Moscow. Hard-working practical Kaganovich was sent off in 1925, at the age of 32 to boss the Ukraine, Russia's richest area; there, directed the building of Dneprostroi, first great...