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...visit of two of Russia's outstanding journalists, Ilya Ehrenburg and Konstantin Simonov, will highlight today the first reunion of newspapermen who have held or now hold Nieman Fellowships at the University. A series of programs for the Fellows extends from yesterday afternoon through tomorrow...
Izvestia's slight, greying, top war cor respondent Ilya Ehrenburg, Red Star's mustached young (30) novelist Konstantin (Days & Nights) Simonov, and Pravda's chunky General Mikhail Galaktionov had arrived the afternoon before, wilted and bleary-eyed from their trip. Now, after a good night's sleep at their Embassy, they were ready for questions...
...broader way." For that, the editors gave him a big hand. Facile Ilya Ehrenburg, easily the star of the show, had his hosts goggle-eyed with admiration for the dexterous way he handled himself. Roundheaded General Galaktionov popped up for occasional slow, emphatic replies; dapper Author-Playwright Simonov sat in a smoldering haze of cigaret smoke and let his elders do the talking...
...heroic young nurse and to strangle a Nazi spy with one hand while buried up to his neck in the rubble of a brick wall. But Days and Nights is neither a love story nor a routine bang-bang adventure yarn. Its high emotional charge is due to Author Simonov's sensitive observation of the people who fought in Stalingrad's streets. Russians have already bought 400,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club has selected Joseph Barnes's smooth translation for November...
DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...