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Nevertheless, the White Russians did achieve some transient successes, particularly in the Southern theater, where their troops at one time penetrated to within 200 miles of the Communist headquarters at Moscow. Last Train over Rostov Bridge is the story of the part in this campaign played by an American flier, Caotain Marion Aten. The story is true...
Last Train over Rostov Bridge is far from great history; neither does it qualify as outstanding story-telling. Nevertheless, it is still a striking account of what must have been quite an adventure. The book doesn't tell nearly as much about the Russian revolution as Kennan's Russia and the West. But it goes a lot faster...
...Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
...usual with Soviet celebrities, facts are few. He was born at Rostov-on-Don, is 51 and has a son at Moscow University. About 5 ft. 9 in. tall, he has brown eyes that narrow to slits when he laughs and give him an oriental look. He is an aero-dynarnicist who turned to astrophysics after World War II. Foreign colleagues give him top rating in his field, but they know almost nothing about his personal life. He often travels abroad, is always affable, but does not let his hair down. Said one British scientist last week: "After...
Sentimental Legend. Some of this involves the novel in dense thickets of Marxist homiletics. But two things in Wolfe's fictional chronicle are intriguing in human terms. One is the sense of Trotsky-Rostov's real devotion to his wife. The other is his personal gentleness and charm. He kept pet rabbits (one was called George Sand), which had been bought to give the household its own supply of meat, but which, when it came to the point, the author of The Defense of Terrorism could not bear to have killed...