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...Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...
Performing with the enthusiasm of oldtime, touring vaudevillians, they swung across the state-Houston. Dallas, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Odessa-unwilted by 100° heat, shook as many as 2,500 hands a day, made their pitch at morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record...
...cleared the way for such projects as the African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were made to send 150 Congolese youths to Moscow's new Friendship University in the autumn. And at least 1,000 African students have already been installed in schools in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa and Leningrad under the crash program begun three years...
Last week the Russians expelled Colonel Edwin M. Kirton, the U.S. air attache in Moscow, on charges of trying to photograph military installations in Odessa and "actively carrying out visual observations" on a train ride southeast of Sverdlovsk...
...Ukrainian laborer, Malinovsky quit school at twelve to go to work as a shop messenger in Odessa. Too young (15) for enlistment in the Czar's army when World War I broke out, he stowed away with a unit leaving for the German front, was adopted as a mascot. Within a year, he was promoted to corporal, won the St. George's Cross, and was wounded...