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William Shakespeare was still popular in Russia. The U.S.S.R. is the only place where he is universally appreciated, explained a poem in the Russian weekly, Ogonek: "Shakespeare's spiritual home is in Russia...
Commencement time had come & gone again. To schoolchildren the world over it meant once more a time of haunting fears and vaunting dreams, a time when anything seemed possible. What did some of them hope for? In Soviet Russia the magazine Ogonek (The Little Light) polled a few of the 200,000 young folk ready to enter universities this year, reported their notions of what lies ahead...
...world got one of its rare glimpses of long-lipped Major General Vasily Yosifovich ("Vasya") Stalin, 28, Stalin's favorite son. † Ogonek, a Soviet picture magazine, showed him at the controls of a plane, commanding the air show over Moscow's May Day parade...
Russians who covet the atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...