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...other conversation went further. The human participant was a Chicago animal-trainer, Reuben Castang. London-born son of an animal buyer, black-haired Reuben entered circus work 50 years ago in Hamburg, Germany. His greatest boast: when Explorer Roald Amundsen planned to have polar bears instead of huskies haul sleds on his 1910 polar dash, he, Castang, was chosen as trainer. He taught 21 bears to pull sleds in harness. Then Amundsen decided to use dogs after all. Since then, Castang has trained chimpanzees almost exclusively...
...right people are chosen." Moscow observers noted not only that 712 of 1,143 constituencies nominated Stalin for Parliament but most of them also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice...
...scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding. To Stalin as to his people this week's election is a milestone. Last year when he gave them their Constitution, its terms made clear that the time had come when his driving and scolding could give place...
...skins and three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey...
...White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal of Editor Ross in sudden irascibility, at Cornell where both were members of Book & Bowl, beer-drinking literary society...