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Religion is immensely important to atheists-as was demonstrated once again last week in Moscow by the Scandal of Sasha Turkin...
...Sasha was an honor student in the tenth grade of Moscow's School No. 147. Naturally he applied for membership in the Komsomol, the Communist Youth Organization. But just as the classroom vote on him was about to be taken, according to Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, his friend, Vitali, tried to make everyone laugh by asking Sasha a stupid question: "Do you believe in God?" "Yes," replied Sasha in a hushed voice...
Alexander (Sasha) Krivopalov, a reporter for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official newspaper for the Young Communist League (daily circulation over 3 million), was also a favorite among students and spent an afternoon at the CRIMSON, sitting through an editorial meeting and discussing the paper's operations with the President, Alan H. Grossman...
...Cheryomushki district, where huge apartment buildings are being erected to relieve the housing shortage. Included in the cast are a construction worker, a museum guide, an old man who stubbornly refuses to leave his apartment in "Warm Alley" for the new development, and a married couple named Sasha and Masha, who are forced to kiss goodnight each evening and retire to their separate dwellings. Eventually all the characters get apartments in a triumph over the bureaucratic housing director and his scheming wife...
...even for the serious student, the film capital still has its lighter moments. In line of duty, Goodman has turned out in Roman toga to recline on a sofa and eat roast suckling pig at the Sasha's Palate restaurant (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). He was dutifully present at Michael's Cheesecake Stand in the Los Angeles Farmer's Market in 1951, when Marilyn Monroe was ceremoniously crowned "Miss Cheesecake." And he is willing to testify personally to one epic Goldwynism: "I will never write my autobiography as long as I live...