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...Grand & Interesting." The shrillest greetings to 1948 came from the official trumpets of world Communism. Boomed Moscow's Pravda: "The age of capitalism is approaching its end." Russian kids, despite Marxist disapproval of all fairy tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting...
Britain's Ambassador Sir Maurice Peterson kept wires to Whitehall humming with reports of a "chaotic state of affairs."* But speculators perked up. In a not-so-fabulous fable, Leningrad's Pravda told of one speculator whom it called Evlampy Khapuga ("Grabber...
According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...
From this Daliesque debacle, Speculator Khapuga last week made a fabulous recovery. "But," said Leningrad's Pravda, "we will finish...
...Letters to the Editor" columns of the U.S. and British press are an open gate to an open forum. The U.S.S.R.'s Historian Eugene Tarle and David Zaslavsky, co-editor of Pravda, among others, have used it to get their viewpoints in print before the U.S. public. But last week, editors began to suspect that Soviet propagandists were getting set to crowd through the door in droves. Several influential papers had received and printed letters from Moscow, written in perfect English, expensively cabled and signed by private Soviet citizens-or at least bearing their names...