Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again at war's end, Lenin appeared to have undergone a change for the better, causing Observer B. Krinitsky to exclaim: "Lenin looks much the same as many of us remember him." The reason for this startling rejuvenation, was suggested last week by Budu Svanidze, 57-year-old nephew of Stalin's first wife Katerina. Svanidze, who recently bolted a Soviet diplomatic job to marry a Hungarian girl, has written a book about life with Stalin, which France's Opera Mundi is serializing...
...dinner party in the Kremlin's underground shelters early in 1942, says Nephew Svanidze, Stalin was told that Lenin's body, since its removal, was deteriorating rapidly. Stalin expressed fears that if Lenin's body became completely decomposed the Russian people might take it as a bad omen: "If we find it is impossible to preserve the body, we'll have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body...
...Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of the Partisan Review...
...should establish an academy of diplomacy to take its place alongside West Point and Annapolis," Stassen said, decrying the low caliber of our diplomatic corps. Because of the lack of adequately trained foreign service personnel "some nephew of a senator, who hardly knows how to get out of the rain, often gets a vacant position...
...Louis' nephew, Francois "Le Grand," was represented by one of his most talked about but least performed compositions. It is a miniature musical drama, depicting the deification of Couperin's idol, Jean Baptiste Lully. This is program music at its most imaginative. Each of the twelve sections has an elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin...