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...Dictator Joseph Stalin; of pneumonia; near Tiflis, Georgia. Wife of a shoemaker, she wanted her son to be a priest, entered him in Tiflis Theological Seminary from which he was expelled for revolutionary activity. On entering the Communist Party he took a new name. Son Stalin, whom she called "Soso," did not attend the funeral. Reported she on his last visit to her in 1935: "We spent the whole day together joking and laughing...
...south of Russia?a land of authentic brigands who sniped at Tsarist officials from behind romantic mountain crags and unromantically ignored Georgia's pink & purple sunsets. As she grew to childhood, the locksmith's daughter knew her father's friend, the future Dictator of Russia, by his Georgian nicknames. "Soso" and "Koba." His daring robberies (which he called ''expropriations'') seemed as natural to her as his still more daring murders ("executions")?for were they all not done to get money for the Communist cause and at the orders of Nikolai Lenin, then a studious resident of London, England...
...behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing modesty and simplicity of attitude." Henderson let his Sun readers believe that things had been just soso. In the Times Olin Downes wrote heavy, rhapsodic sentences about a great triumph: "For once the music of Handel was properly enunciated. It had the lordly sweep, the songfulness, the strength which inhere in Handel's glorious art, and it was clothed in sumptuous tone that rang and chanted through...
...Soso? Why that's my son Josef. Soso is our Georgian pet name for Josef. Yes, he was always a good boy. I never had to punish...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...