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Died. Victor Mikhailovich Chernov, 78, president of Russia's freely elected Constituent Assembly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Patriarch of Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...
...Zeno, now 52, presided over it all like an unconventional patriarch, counseling his children, praying with them, and playing his accordion for them. Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater. Unfortunately, he was never able to dodge conventional economics. With most of its citizens too young to earn enough money to support the colony, Nomadelphia accumulated a disastrous debt of 310 million lire (nearly $500,000). By last month the creditors were growing restless...
...years since, Methodist McConnell has stayed close enough to earth to become the best-known preacher of the "social gospel" in U.S. Protestantism. In By the Way (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $3.50), a chatty autobiography well furnished with preacher stories, the controversial patriarch of U.S. Methodists, now 80, takes a mellow backward look on his long struggle to give his religion a social conscience as well as a theological...
Last week the whale ship Anglo Norse put in at Elizabeth, N.J., with photographs of a real Moby Dick: an albino sperm whale harpooned off Peru several months ago by Gunner Henrik Nilsen. The whale was a 56-ton patriarch, all milky white with a bluish tinge around the tail. Gunner Nilsen struck first, lived to see his prey cut up and rendered...
Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...