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Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...
...fair wind was already blowing from "other directions." At Odessa on the Black Sea, ships took on the first carloads of 500,000 tons of grain the Russians had promised to France. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez was busy telling his countrymen about Russia's beneficence. A Courrier de Paris cartoon showed Blum as a gloomy war bride bound for the U.S., surrounded by sympathetic French girls saying: "Poor thing, her G.I. doesn't want her any more." Russia was not above trying to win Marianne on the rebound...
...Sundown (pop. 1,500) rabid football citizens dug deep for $3,000 to pay a good coach; Brownsville anted a fat $5,000 for its coach. By adding a bumper-to-bumper motorcade to the first (so they claimed) postwar-special football train, practically all of Odessa's inhabitants trekked 170 miles to see their team play Abilene...
DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...