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...Moscow 1,000,000 copies of President Mikhail Kalinin's biography, A Book About the Leader, were issued, while sketches by Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Commissar for Internal Affairs Laurentius Pavlovich Beria are soon to appear. In a twelve-page edition of Pravda, Moscow Communist Party newsorgan, only one column was not devoted to Joseph Stalin on his birthday morn. In an editorial called "Our Own Stalin," Pravda declared: "Metal workers of Detroit, shipyard workers of Sydney, women workers of Shanghai textile factories, sailors at Marseille, Egyptian fellahin, Indian peasants on the banks of the Ganges...
...largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov's assistant...
Greatest of Russian short-story writers -his adherents say, greatest in the world -Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is principally known to the U. S. as the author of one play, The Cherry Orchard.* Never so popular as Maupassant, and overshadowed today by such compatriots as Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, Chekhov had a bright day in his own lifetime (1860-1904), will no doubt re-emerge in the future. His comparatively few U. S. and English readers have generally found Chekhov, even in translation, an unforgettable experience...
Impressed by Mr. Odets' previous work, and his audacity in bracketing himself with the late great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, reviewers settled in their seats at Paradise Lost ready for almost anything. When they rose after the final curtain, none could deny that plenty had happened. Ben Gordon, an Olympic runner, marries a wench who betrays him, gets shot in a holdup. His brother Julie takes three acts to die of sleeping sickness. His sister...
Last week this great objective was achieved by smudge-mustached Foreign Trade Commissar Arkadi Pavlovich Rosengoltz...