Word: son-in-law
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What happened at that private meeting last March between Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev's son-in-law...
...soldier's return was chronicled in a subtle, stylish new poem by Tvardovsky that was spread across two pages of Izvestia under a warmly approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
...greater on the financial side. When he took over from Eugene Meyer in 1946, the Post was in grievous financial shape, while its gaudy opposition, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, was high on the hog. In 1949, after Mrs. Patterson's death, Meyer and his astute son-in-law tried in vain to buy the Times-Herald, but lost out to Colonel Bertie McCormick. In 1954, after a disastrous attempt to run it like a D.C. edition of his Chicago Tribune, McCormick sold his paper to Meyer & Co. (for $10,300,000), giving the Post & Times Herald...
...Newsday put it in Alicia's obit last week, relations between father and son-in-law were "correct but never cordial." Father and daughter grew distant.* Sin In the Choir Loft. Alicia decided she wanted her own newspaper. Her husband agreed ("Everybody ought to have a job"), wisely judging that this would be an outlet for her enormous energies, and put up $70,000 to get the paper started. Her idea was to publish a suburban daily for Long Island, where she and Guggenheim lived in a 30-room Norman mansion in fashionable Sands Point. What...
...Western journalists who happened to read it, the snarls they got in the monthly magazine Sovetskaya Pechat (Soviet Press) were hardly a surprise. The author was Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Nikita Khrushchev. Beware your Western colleagues, said the suspicious editor. They preach the preposterous idea that there can be a peaceful coexistence of ideologies...