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...week's end the court had still to rule on SEC's motions against Guterma, but the Siberia-born financier was also being investigated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Brooklyn grand jury...
Mystery Man Guterma, 43, claims to have been born in Irkutsk, Siberia, though he speaks like a native New Yorker. His story is that he went to the Philippines in 1938 by way of China, managed to escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
...bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...
...purporting to show that the country had produced 145 million tons of grain, when in cold fact it had harvested no more than 100 million. Taking over, Nikita Khrushchev saw that the only way to expand production to feed an industrialized nation was to open vast new acreage in Siberia and offer Russia's collective farmers gaudy price incentives to boost their output. Having messed up Soviet agriculture earlier, said Khrushchev, the "reactionaries" of the anti-party group fought his every reform. "It hurts my tongue to call them comrades.'' he growled...
...travels alone across Siberia, settles finally in a remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women...