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...second generation Bolshevik, Kozlov was born in 1908-three years after the first big uprising against the Czar-in the village of Loshchinino. Ryazan province. His parents, he says, were poor farmers who owned their land but had to piece out their living by working at a nearby textile factory. At 15, Frol went to work in the textile plant and at 18 became a member of the Communist Party, which sent him off to a worker's school and later to Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Engineer Kozlov served for a time as foreman in a steel plant...
...comrade was not to be caught. "Put them under a faucet and then you'll see. No, brother, our Ryazan girls are better. They use no trickery...
...beating a field of 31 planes over a 5,900-mi. course through nine European countries. Last week, in the 22nd annual James Gordon Bennett balloon race at Warsaw, Polish flyers took not only the first two places, but the third as well. Winning balloon drifted 830 mi. to Ryazan, U. S. S. R. Chief excitement of the race was furnished by over-zealous Soviet frontier guards who fired at several of the balloons, hit none...