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...frown on large foreign embassy staffs and restrict the number of U.S. newsmen to eight, consider fur traders birds of a different capitalistic feather. Among about 100 foreign fur brokers invited were 40 Americans. The guests bought $7,000,000 worth of sables, ermine and muskrat and bid up Siberian Bargusinsky sable to a postwar high of $550 a skin...
More concerned with the thoughts and reactions of Russians, than in their physical setting, "Through Russia's Back Door" is a running account of conversations and incidents from Shanghai to Berlin, as a reporter saw them. Lauterbach was tied down to a coach of the Trans-Siberian Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...
...Admission of two Siberian republics to full membership...
...they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner, wrote a piece comparing him with Pinza and Chaliapin...
Best hope for the future: resistant varieties. Siberian elms are not killed by Dutch elm disease-which probably indicates that the fungus came originally from Asia. The Buisman elm of The Netherlands is resistant also. The Department is already experimenting with fungus-defying hybrids. Perhaps, in a century, there will be an elm renaissance...