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...head of the press section of the Foreign Ministry, able, thirtyish Constantine Zinchenko is the man who accredits or bars foreign correspondents who seek entry to Moscow, though the MGB (formerly NKVD) are finally responsible for keeping the foreign press colony so small. From their first day in Moscow, when they formally present their credentials to him, correspondents must deal with Zinchenko if they want interviews, transportation, stoves for their rooms, extra food, or transfer from one Metropole Hotel room to another...
Journalists' books about China are in evitable. A poet's book is rare and un expected. Robert Payne, a versatile, thirtyish Englishman who is a professor of literature, a lecturer in naval architecture, a playwright and also a journalist, has done the unexpected book. The result is exciting and evocative...
...Squire Literary Agent Marcella Powers, thirtyish, whom Lewis says he will not (but rumor insists he may) soon marry...
Best known pro-Russian was aging (74), independent Premier Juho Paasikivi, who said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough...
Only 25 Knew. Before the liberation of Paris only 25 people knew the identity of the man chiefly responsible for Les Editions de Minuit. He was shy, thirtyish Jean Bruller, a onetime illustrator whose skittish prewar works included a book of cartoons entitled Twenty-One Delightful Ways of Committing Suicide...