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McGough's comic skirmishes in the war between the sexes and the generations are climaxed by a ritual hatred of Skull and Bones-to him a mausoleum in which is embalmed the spirit of Yaledom. His career at Yale ends on the great day that Edmund Wilson hymned in a parody of Yaleman-Poet Archibald MacLeish...
Champagne&Cakes. Elaboratelycourted in Moscow last week, Tito was exploiting his singular advantage with evident satisfaction. In the conference room at the Council of Ministers building, the customary huge portrait of Stalin had been removed in order that Tito should not be offended. Marching sternly through the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square in his powder-blue marshal's uniform, Tito ignored the sarcophagus of Stalin, gave a passing glance to that of Lenin. His 5 ft. wreath was marked "To Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" from "Josip Broz Tito." At a workers' meeting at the Moskva Auto Works (formerly...
...weeks ago Mrs. Murphey showed the letters to a friend, Miami Herald Reporter Phil Fortman. The Herald promptly announced a series based on them, including such nuggets-censored out of Norton's dispatches-as an account of worshipful Muscovites braving the new line against Stalin to visit his mausoleum...
...members. But the number of simple nonparty Russians queueing up for a look at the embalmed "leader and teacher" of Communism was as long as it had ever been. Asked if he had heard about the new line, an old Russian mumbled: "Criticism? Criticism? I am waiting for the mausoleum doors to open...
Next morning Nehru, wearing a white rose, laid a wreath at the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square, and set out on the standard Kremlin tour, interrupted at intervals by "passing" groups of happy Russian tourists, who just chanced to have bouquets of flowers to give to him. In the Kremlin armory Nehru lingered over a small dirk of Indian craftsmanship, once owned by Peter the Great...