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...resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Last week the nation was witness to a touching insight into the happiness and unhappiness of one Russian family - that of Dictator Joseph Stalin, whose only daughter, third and last child and sole surviving offsprinig, Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, 42, recently dissociated herself from both Communism and the chance catastrophe of her birth...
Though many a U.S. publisher would have mortgaged his mother to buy Svetlana Allilueva Stalina's memoirs, Manhattan's genteel Harper & Row won the prize without even trying. Svetlana's lawyer, Edward S. Greenbaum, simply phoned his old friend Cass Canfield, Harper's chairman. The motive, though, was something more than friendship. What helps Harper to beat all competition for big books by big names is a secret weapon named Evan Welling Thomas 2nd-the amiably persistent editor who has polished more books by important public figures than anyone else in publishing...
...hair was bobbed a trifle close, her figure was a trifle stout, and her face was round and beaming but she nonetheless had a special kind of glamour. As more than 100 news men and airport police surrounded her, a forest of microphones poking from their midst, Svetlana Stalina, 42, daughter of Joseph Stalin and by far the most prominent defector ever to pass through the Iron Curtain, gave her first greeting to the U.S. "Hello there, everybody," she said. "I am very happy to be here...
Before her arrival, however, Kennan had a few words to say. Svetlana Stalina, he said, is not a " 'defector' in the usual cold war sense." Rather, she is a person "whose interests are literary and humane. She loves her country and hopes, with her writing and her activity outside Russia, to bring benefit to it, and not harm...
...Lower House of Parliament, the opposition has been maneuvering to overcome the government's tenuous 17 vote majority. It has relentlessly picked at Indira, accused her of using official gifts from visiting heads of state for her own enjoyment and of heartlessly denying permission to Svetlana Stalina to stay in India. If it can show strength in the contest for the presidency, which will be decided by an electoral college of state and national legislators on May 6, the opposition might lure more Congress members of Parliament over to its side and perhaps even threaten the tenure...