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Embarrassed Composer Prokofieff explained: "I... tried to preserve the spirit of Tolstoy's . . . language." As Pravda gave the performance a mild but official chiding ("A text ... for reading ... is not always good when sung"), U.S. music lovers virtually abandoned all hope of hearing War and Peace next season...
...first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check (1919) and from Tass News Agency, which carries 13,000 words a day from America...
...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...Marshal's full name is Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, which rarely, if ever, use first names, call him G. K. Zhukov. Foreign correspondents in Moscow, stumped by the G. K. when Zhukov first made important war news, decided to call him Gregory, have more or less stuck to (or been stuck with) it since...
...feminine colleague, Comrade N. Sergeeva of Pravda, was not so tolerant: "Can anything be concealed from the ubiquitous American press? Is it surprising that with the necessary . . . connections the correspondents of the American newspapers succeed fairly quickly in getting wind of what is being discussed at a closed conference? But to get wind of a subject does not mean truthfully reporting and explaining it. Every day, every hour the press . . . is full of assumptions, conjectures . . . provocation...