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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kill Stalin!" Said Zinoviev: "I acknowledge that." "The secretary," breathlessly continued Bakayev, "instead of killing Stalin killed himself!" Lecture by Kamenev, With the air of a professor addressing pupils of none too great intelligence and striving to make everything crystal clear, Prisoner Kamenev made his confession at such length that his lecture was interrupted four times by the changing of the soldiers guarding the prisoners' box. Gist of Kam-enev's confession was that Stalin's old enemy Leon Trotsky (ne Bronstein), who now lives exiled in Norway, had provided the brains, Kamenev and Zinoviev had supplied...
...next day was the first full-length biography of Father Divine, God in a Rolls-Royce,* by John Hoshor, 37, a white Manhattanite, onetime stockbroker, now a free-lance adman and investment counsel. Impressed by Father Divine as a self-advertiser, Biographer Hoshor claims to have spent six months in & out of a Divine "heaven" in Harlem, pretending to be a convert and, he says, almost becoming...
...gave her a feeling of identification with the hunted, of hatred and fear of the pursuers. A matter-of-fact, occasionally amusing novel, I Am the Fox is the Atlantic Monthly's $10,000 prize novel the work of a 34-year-old Iowa teacher, her first full-length book. Between chapters devoted to Selma's early years her observations on the small-town marriages around her, her first experiences with men, Author Van Etten flashes back to pictures of Selma and Gardner going on with their quarrel about the fox, their deeper argument about getting married...
...cold mist at Grunau, Washington University's eight-oared crew won the gold medal by half a length over Italy and Germany in a breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada...
...scale it is staggering. Aside from the difficulties introduced by foreign exchange and local preferences, international cotton merchants have to think, deal, quote in terms of a thousand different kinds of cotton. In the U. S. alone official standards specify 37 different grades on quality, 20 grades on staple length, offering in combinations no less than 740 possibilities. Will Clayton s not only an international cotton merchant but a profound student of economics. When he travels, usually by plane, his brief case is always jammed with earned tracts. What he learns, what he thinks, he can express with clarity...