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...student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent in Moscow and Berlin, he was a deputy director of OWI's overseas operations, a fellow traveler on Willkie's "one world" flight, and translator of Soviet Novelist Konstantin Simonov's Days and Nights...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
Konstantin Simonov, Russia's most successful literary handyman (three theaters were running his plays simultaneously in Moscow last month), recently wrote a novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...
...Russian girl went to the opening with U.S. Correspondent Newbold Noyes Jr. (whose grandfather-no Rasputin-is president of the Washington Evening Star Newspaper Co. and former president of the Associated Press). She regarded Noyes with "deeper and deeper horror as the evening wore on," finally declared: "Mr. Simonov would not write it if this were not the truth. Here it is not as it is in your country. Here one must be able to prove what one says." Declared the Moscow News: "Simonov's play is really an attack on American illness ... it is nothing but a Wassermann...
...Currently Simonov is on another "good will" mission in Britain. Explained he last week: "Russia is like a front line, one sector of which is literature...