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Josef Stalin may allow Russians to bathe stark naked on the Nevsky banks, exile stubborn Kulaks to the wastes of Siberia, or teach clumsy railroad workers an object lesson in front of a firing-squad, but his cloven hoof appears in silk stocking with distressing frequency...
...daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin was on her way to Peru, Ind., to ride bareback, train lions and tigers for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. For nine years Trainer Rasputin has been traveling with European circuses. Imprisoned during the Revolution, she escaped, fled from Russia to Siberia to France, where her husband died six years later. To support her two daughters, she first danced in a Russian ballet, was roundly hissed as the daughter of Rasputin. Then she found she could "control" animals with her eyes...
...highways, finest in the world, are little better than Siberia's in dead of winter. That something should be done about it was suggested last week by John R. Adams, Detroit adman. His suggestion: Lay sheet steel surfacing on concrete imbedded with electrical heating units to melt ice & snow. Adman Adams believes his heated highways will be here...
...bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along the Baltic coast, but to hunt through northern Siberia, with or without Soviet permission, for a saintly German scholar who had disappeared somewhere in the frozen interior. Before their ship came to port Greta had seen through Sandy, and she and Andrew were almost in love. But when they landed they said goodby...
...Dictator, who has been from 1930 onward a merciless exterminator of Russia's more prosperous peasants or kulaks, is now ready, announced Comrade Yakovlev, to readmit "repentant kulaks" to cultivation of Russia's farm lands. Since Stalin has exiled some 1,000,000 kulaks to Siberia, where many have died, Russia can now count on the return of the remainder in the guise of "repentant kulaks" to her most fertile lands. Originally these folk were the Soviet Union's most able soil tillers. "These former class enemies," cried Comrade Yakovlev last week, "will now receive lenient treatment...