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Policeman's Mission. Who is Beria? The known facts of his life could be handily engraved on a police badge. Beria is one of the 14 members of the all powerful Politburo; he still supervises the secret police, which he controlled directly for nine years when it was called the NKVD. Every Soviet citizen knows his name, knows that he is a Georgian, like Stalin; that he is 47 years old; that he wields great and mysterious power. But Russians and Americans both might learn a lot more about Deputy Beria and his Berlin mission through one revealing anecdote...
...merely as a preliminary to semifinals, not finals. The Foreign Ministers, when they meet in Moscow in March, are expected to throw most of the problems back to the deputies, with more or less specific instructions. A high U.S. diplomat last week estimated that it might be anywhere from nine months to two years before the peace treaty with Germany is finally written...
Even the swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since...
...winding up its seasonal activities, the "D" team still has a mathematical chance to cop top honors in its league. Meanwhile the racqueteers are priming to send nine men against Yale on February 22, an innovation replacing the normal five man encounters...
...Debate Council has scheduled nine contests for the spring term, and is arranging for several others. It is also now organizing a system of inter-House events...