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With his white-haired wife, Davis lives in a small apartment filled with bulging bookcases, a big typewriter desk, a battered, slipcovered easy chair. For relaxation he still plays bridge, with Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. (Meyer and Jones, bitter enemies, are never in the same foursome...
Lost Cause. In a heavy-handed manner which did U.S.-Russian understanding no good, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff announced the deaths in a letter to A.F. of L. President William Green. Litvinoff said the two men fled to Moscow in 1939. They were sentenced to death in August 1941 for subversive activities, but were released at the Polish Government's request...
...However," said Litvinoff, "after they were set free, and at a time of the most desperate battle of the Soviet troops with the Hitlerite armies, they resumed their hostile attitude, including appeals to Soviet troops to stop fighting and conclude peace with Germany. For this they were again tried before the Soviet Supreme...
From a cozy game of bridge up stood Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Bridgeplayer Ely Culbertson. Their conditions, reported later by Culbertson: Litvinoff, $32 richer; Culbertson, $8 richer; Davies, $2 richer; the Secretary of Commerce (whose best game is poker), somewhat poorer...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...