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High spot of the convention, however, was Saturday's meeting with Russian journalists, Ilya Ehrenburg and Konstantin Simonov, currently touring the United States as a sort of two-man information team. The Niemans took advantage of their trade: what started as an after-dinner speech turned gradually into a mass press conference...
Ehrenburg and Simonov were probably among the toughest assignments the assembled reporters ever had to cover; for they weren't propagandists--that would have been easy. Many of the on-lookers, trained to expect a set pattern in Russian visitors, were jolted at the start by the striking difference in the two visitors' approach...
...could took more like a play-Wright than Simonov, the prize, winning dramatist. Tall and filled-out, with slicked hair and a small moustache, he relaxed in his custom-looking gray flanuels and checked sport jacket. Both smoked at undernourished-looking cigars, spoke through interpreters (though Ehrenburg threw in some French for spice...
...Simonov added a word about national policy in answer to a question about the chauvinism of the Russian press: "If I thought American press slander of the U.S.S.R. were typical of the United States, I should never have come to visit...
Ehrenburg and Simonov will meet President Conant this morning and will be great speakers at a Faculty Club luncheon. At a mass breakfast tomorrow the Fellows will make plans for the foundation of a permanent Nieman Fellows' club...