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...remember Scott as the TIME editor who lived ten years under Stalin's rule, worked first as a welder in Siberian Magnitogorsk, later as Moscow correspondent 'for the London News Chronicle and the New York Times...
Bakelite and Boar Bristles. John Challis makes his harpsichords in a two-floor studio above an Ypsilanti dress shop. Two assistants, who have been with him for years, help him fit together the intricate combination of carved hardwoods, leather plectra, metal strings and frames, ivory keys and Siberian boar-bristle springs out of which a fine harpsichord is concocted. A slow, painstaking craftsman, Challis turns out only about eight harpsichords a year, at prices ranging from $400 to $2,700. So far, wartime shortages of materials have not affected his output...
...reduce Gorodok, the Red command used the new First Baltic Army, with its winter-trained Siberian regiments, which fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, the Don. It massed heavy artillery, tanks, planes. Then, in a heavy snowfall, the Siberians struck out from three directions...
Outstanding, however, and ranking with that of the U.S., is the Soviet work in botany and agriculture. Among many new crops are green, red and black cotton. The Russians have found a method of planting winter wheat (in unplowed stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...
Each member of the Senatorial junket seemed to have one major concern. Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge was most insistent on the subject of Siberian air bases, was acridly criticized by his fellow travelers. Said they: Lodge's statement that possession of Siberian air bases would save a million American lives was both inaccurate and unfortunate; Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall had requested that the question not be raised...