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Last month a little tin box, no more than five inches around, arrived in the U.S. In it were 100 feet of microfilm-the photographed score of the Seventh Symphony. It had been carried by plane from Kuibyshev to Teheran, by auto from Teheran to Cairo, by plane from Cairo to New York. Photographers went to work printing from the film. In ten days they reproduced four fat volumes, 252 pages in all, of orchestral score...
...Reynolds was on the plane that brought Ambassadors Litvinoff and Steinhardt out of Russia. He picnicked with his companions on chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
Almost as turbulent and dangerous as the two years he has spent as Ambassador to Russia was his 14-day trip back to Washington. In a howling blizzard he had flown from Kuibyshev, Russia's auxiliary capital, to Teheran in Iran. At one time his party, which included newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff, was reported lost. In Teheran, Litvinoff was left behind, while Steinhardt flew on to Cairo because he had broken a tooth, and there was no good dentist short of Egypt...
Muddling Britons last week managed a neat insult to their ally Soviet Russia. On his way to Washington, Russia's newly appointed Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff flew into Teheran, tried to fly on to Cairo in a British Overseas Airways plane. But chubby Ambassador Litvinoff was stopped at the steps to the plane with the information: "All seats already have been taken...
...Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable, and that the Russian Embassy at Teheran had been informed that the transport plane was full. One London rumor, conflicting with the Teheran dispatches, claimed that the plane was already in the air when the Ambassador arrived at the airport...