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Died. Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, 70, longtime (1919-46) President of the U.S.S.R'., biographer of Stalin (1,000,000 copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born "Papa" Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia's high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card...
Thanks to Antonio, the Costas may soon be able to move to roomier quarters. Meanwhile the hubbub has become too much for Papa Costa, a glass worker. Recently Papa took to disappearing mysteriously. One night Mama Costa blindfolded Antonio and pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
Canada's best known junior misses, the Dionne quintuplets, turn twelve this week. Yvonne, Marie, Emilie, Annette, Cécile dolled up to share Papa Oliva Dionne's knee (see cut) and a single big birthday cake. But no presents. Other years there had been five cakes and gifts of ponies, bicycles, etc. This year the Quints decided that the money should go to help feed children in Europe...
...Papa Edward Marvin Head, 26, passed around the cigars, strode proudly out to pitch for the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his first game in two years, and his arm was a bit sore (he was hurt by the recoil of an antitank gun last summer...
...strikeouts, three walks and 105 minutes later, Papa Head had pitched Brooklyn's first no-hit, no-run game in six years, the first in the National League in two years. It was even more phenomenal for a right-hander who was originally a southpaw until his left arm was crushed in an auto accident...