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...spent in bitter poverty. He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU. Next he purged Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and practically the entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal to anything that went on in Nazi concentration camps. The papers referred to Yezhov almost as lyrically as to Stalin: "Our hero...
John Harburger and Frederic Hirst-known collectively as John-Frederics, creators of costly millinery trifles-ambiguously declared that Joan Crawford is positively Hollywood's "sexiest hat wearer." Maria Montez, they confided, is the "maddest...
Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
...Thurber's simpler secrets is the dismaying fact that the maddest laughter is often provoked by no laughing matter. Thus, one twin-bedded, book-reading wife asks of her mate, in the other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone...
Among bluejackets there was talk of boycotting the city in favor of Oakland. Maddest of all were Navy wives and sweethearts, who showered the newspapers with letters beginning: "I am shocked and outraged. . . " ; "I can hardly find words to express my contempt...