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After German setbacks in early 1943, Hitler offered Stalin a deal to swap Yakov, who had resisted Nazi blandishments to defect to the German cause, for the German field marshal who surrendered at Stalingrad. Stalin turned down the proposal, replying: "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate." According to his Russian cellmate, it was the news that his father had refused to ransom him that drove Yakov to despair and his suicidal attempt to escape...
...Mailer. He makes everything seem so friendly. There is such solace in respectability." But Mailer, at the very same instant, was not feeling the way I had imagined him: The subject was not absolutely calm. To his own excitement was added the tense quivering grip of the Marshal--the sense of breathing mountain air had hardly abated: his lungs seemed to take in oxygen with a thin edge, his throat burned...
Rachel Radlo Lieberman of East House has been elected Commencement Marshal of the Radcliffe Class...
...town house bordering a vacant lot leased by the Supreme Court for employee parking. Evidently the lot was also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming Warren as one of the three defendants. Next morning at 8 a.m., two janitors appeared to clean...
...stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military experts have compared him with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. "You know when he's in charge," said a top Pentagon official last week. "You can feel him there." Yet Giap had no formal training as a soldier. "The only military academy I have been to," he boasted after Dienbienphu, "is that of the bush...