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Music in Moscow. Only at home in Moscow did the Communists have a really bang-up May Day. Premier Stalin, fit and smiling, climbed atop Lenin's tomb to receive the thundering cheers of Muscovites. Overhead, more than 250 jet planes, including some impressive new models vaunted as the fastest in the world, whooshed past in impeccable formation. In the lead plane was Major General Vasily J. Stalin, the Generalissimo...
...that Diego Rivera's picture for Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, The Crossroads, with Lenin uniting the workers, was "reduced to plaster dust." If that is the case, then it has been beautifully reassembled . . . for it can be seen in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ... A sizable amount of "dust" to be moved about, or did Rivera paint the same mural again for our neighbors to the South...
...hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled at the Lenin Institute in Moscow...
Died. Sir Bernard Pares, 82, historian and authority on Russia; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. British-born, non-Communist Sir Bernard (George V knighted him in 1919 for helping the short-lived pro-Allied Kerensky government) visited Russia more than 20 times, was firmly convinced that Stalin (unlike Lenin and Trotsky) was a patriot interested only in his own country's security (rather than ia world revolution and Communist domination...
...with the contract: "Man at the Crossroads looking with uncertainty but with Hope and High Vision to the choosing of a course leading to a New and Better Future." To Rivera, the "Crossroads" were capitalism and Communism, so he painted a mural contrasting Wall Streeters on a binge with Lenin uniting the workers. The Rockefellers said Lenin must go: Rivera thumbed his nose. In the end the Rockefellers had the fresco reduced to plaster dust...