Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading up the honorary pallbearers last week at the funeral of Soviet Marshal Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (see MILESTONES) was a figure that had been out of public sight for five months. Vyacheslav Molotov, variously rumored to be ill, busy at a secret job or out of favor, was obviously still No. 2 man in the U.S.S.R. With Stalin absent he had the place of honor among the mourners. Close by him was pudgy Georgi Malenkov, confirming by his position that in the U.S.S.R. hierarchy he had risen...
Died. Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, 55, marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the defenders of Stalingrad; after long illness; in Moscow. Tolbukhin's army broke through the German lines in November 1942, completed encirclement of Paulus' German Sixth Army, later helped drive the enemy out of the southern Ukraine and the Balkans...
...Western victory in Greece was winged with hope and also with foreboding; the State Department last week received reports that the Communists were about to start guerrilla warfare across the border in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia...
Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...
...report from Trieste revealed that Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, about to take a motor launch from Pola to Fasana on the Adriatic, waited on the dock while advance men made a security check. Sure enough, they found and heaved overboard a time bomb which had been strategically hidden under the marshal's seat...