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...claiming him as ''the world's youngest minister." In a year Charles Jaynes Jr. has become heavier (weight 69 lb.), has substituted a brushed-back bob for the Dutch bangs of his pre-ministerial days. Under the tutelage of his middle-aged nurse and nose-wiper, Neva Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there is a Hell...
...strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE KIROV." The city of Vyatka, capital of the province in which the slain Big Red was born, asked and received Dictator Stalin's prompt permission to change its name to Kirov...
...delicate young man who had inherited a fortune estimated at $300,000,000, invited Rasputin to his palace after dinner to meet some women. Rasputin went. Three days later his body, badly battered about the head and bearing eleven bullet wounds, was found under the ice of the Neva...
...bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest to the U. S. public today if her son James Abbott McNeill Whistler had not grown to be a great artist, had not painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee...
...best architect in New York, jovial Joseph Urban is certainly the most spectacular. A great vat-shaped Viennese, 60 years old, weighing 230 Ih. according to his secretary's latest estimate, his first triumphs were the Khedive's Palace in Cairo; the Alexander Bridge over the Neva in Leningrad; the castle of Prince Esterhazy de Galantha in Hungary. In 1912 he brought a corps of Austrian scene painters to the U. S. to design scenery for the Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third...