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Item: 1887, the youth Josef Pilsudski nicknamed "Ziuk" by his fellow students at the University of Kharkhov, was arrested and charged with complicity in an abortive plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Among leaders of the plot who were hanged was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped up. In Westport, Conn., the Manhattan Symphony postponed until next week the world premiere of Secretary William H. Woodin's The Gallant Tin Soldier, gave instead Daniel Gregory Mason's Chanticleer. Nearby in Weston, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloffs backyard was rolled and ready for the new New York Orchestra which he will take touring next season (TIME, June 19). St. Louis concentrates on light opera during the summer and usually makes it pay. In Forest Park, St. Louis has the biggest revolving stage...
Four years ago when Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff bought a farm in Weston, Conn., he thought he had found a perfect place for resting after strenuous winters with the Cleveland Orchestra. Next winter Sokoloff will not be conducting in Cleveland's imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work...
...that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter Lidov; Engineers Nordwall & Gregory-Aaron Dolmatovski. Commented Correspondent Walter Duranty...
...infantry, cavalry, artillery, and sailors, as well as the latest of Russian military equipment pass in review. You can see what military methods are being taken to protect the Soviet social experiment. Occasional relief is given from this parading by intimate glimpses of satisfied citizen Joseph Stalin, exultant Minister Nikolai Kalenin, and efficient General Voroshiloff...