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...forbidding presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
Malenkov's star was rising again, this time in a clear sky. In January last year, Radio Moscow proclaimed: "True pupil of Lenin, comrade-in-arms of Stalin ... on your 50th birthday we wish you, dear Georgy Malenkov, many years of health." Georgy Malenkov had arrived...
...four miles, enough heat will be concentrated on this area to cook the tissue, which will turn to something like hard-boiled white of egg. The immediate effect will be a large blind spot. Then, as inflammation spreads, the eye will lose its sight entirely. At night, when the pupil is wide open, blinding will occur at 25 miles or more...
...Paris gallery. "I was terribly shocked," he remembers. "I was as shocked as if I saw a woman walking on the Boulevard de la Madeleine stripped naked." Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up to become a pupil of the modern school and, eventually, Greece's best living painter. Last week he was in London giving the city its first good look at the work he signs with a family name "Ghika...
...Madison Square Garden, Dukes & Co. found themselves in unaccustomed trouble at half time: a 35-35 tie. In the dressing room, Coach Russell gave Dukes a dressing down for misplaying St. Bonaventure's big man, Center Bill Edwards, on defense. Russell, who never pampers his star senior pupil, gave Dukes new defensive instructions. The big center told his coach: "I'll remember. I'll give him room on defense. I'll play closer on offense. The big guy won't bother...