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...Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, 53, Deputy Premier, Minister of he Interior, head of the secret police. A Georgian like Stalin, of poor peasant family, graduated in architecture, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, the secret police in 1921. Brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1938 to head the secret police after Yezhov was purged. Operates the largest slavelabor economy in the world, exploiting some 14 million prisoners; also bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial...
...Promoter. Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev had also once applied to Rimsky-Korsakov for advice, and, the story goes, was told to try some other line of work. Diaghilev was a rich young fellow with an itch to dabble in the arts. Vain and hot-tempered but a man of impeccable taste, he decided that if he couldn't be a great artist himself he could encourage and sponsor men who were. In Paris he put on a giant show of Russian art, a series of concerts of Russian music, and the first Parisian performance of Musorgsky's great opera...
...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
Rare in Soviet Russia is a living ex-chief of the political police. Last week Russia had one-tough, professorial Marshal Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, 46. He stepped out as head of the N.K.V.D,, but was apparently still in Stalin's high command...