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...most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
...last time this was done, the State forced some 600,000 Russians to move out of the great and fairly comfortable cities of Moscow and Leningrad by handing them new passports stating that they could live & work only on farms or in the smaller, pioneer cities (TIME, May 8, 1933). To make this mass passport process even harsher, Russians who had to surrender their old passports could not get new ones unless they rehearsed their entire life histories and proved that they were not enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone who turned out to be such an "enemy...
Chatting English, French, German and Russian greetings to one another 1,500 physiologists from the ends of the earth (280 from the U. S.) streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called...
Last week when Dr. Pavlov rang his bell in Leningrad, 1,500 physiologists perked up their ears, demonstrating how bell-conditioned they were to expect a speech. Dr. Pavlov told them what he had told the neurologists in London fortnight before, that dogs have the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholy temperaments which Hippocrates discerned among ancient Greeks...
Many a lone tourist to Russia hopes that the female Intourist guide assigned him by the State will prove to have the easy morals he has heard about. Among these Soviet young women themselves, the Leningrad guides gossip incessantly about the Moscow guides and vice versa, each group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since...