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...make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind. After weeks of scarlet fever and quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed him: the kindliness of the people, the devotion of the minority of patriots who are working to bring the Russian experiment to success. Says he: "Only idiots gush about Russia. Only idiots pretend that life there...
Some U. S. surgeons can graft windows into damaged eyes just as effectively as Professor V. P. Filatov of Odessa, who last week told the U. S. Press that he does. Thus Columbia Medical Center's Dr. Ramon Castroviejo has successfully grafted the cornea of a stillborn infant upon the opaque eye of a grown man (TIME, April 15, 1935). But, by publishing in plain language an exposition of his surgery, Dr. Filatov, famed scientist of the U. S. S. R., violated the mores of U. S. ophthalmologists. On the other hand ordinary U. S. doctors learned...
Intervention was the first play he saw at "the Vakhtangov Theatre. It was a spy story laid at Odessa in 1920, when the Reds were fighting the Whites and practically everybody else in Europe. Every Moscow theatre group has its own hallmark. At the Vakhtangov the hall-mark is a slight caricature of impersonation. "Men with long noses have very long noses, women with large hats have very large hats, thin men are very thin, fat ladies are very fat. They are a little like characters of a Peter Arno album come to life...
...original worthlessness of the Soviet pledge accepted by President Roosevelt. The issue of what the President is going to do about it was considered so grave that Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, who had planned to be away from Moscow during the Congress of the Comintern, canceled arrangements to visit Odessa with his 11-year-old daughter Anne, remained at his post to listen and report to Washington...
...written a new book of travel. It is his seventeenth, and will be avidly welcomed by thousands of members of the Franck Fireside Club. This time America's perennial rambler goes tourist for a thirty day excursion among the wonders of Sovietland from Leningrad to Tiflis, from Moscow to Odessa...