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...things really begin to happen. The town is recaptured by the Tsar's army. Kylenko and his underlings are put aboard ship for Sebastopol, to be executed. They capture the ship and head it back for Theodosia which has been recaptured by Reds. The aristocrats on board, aided by the dancing girl, try to magnetize the ship's compass so that they can steer for Sebastopol without letting Kylenko find out about it. For a time the boat is practically spinning in the Black Sea; but when it docks its passengers find themselves at Theodosia. Dmitri is taken...
That night Dictator Stalin was not the host in Tsar Nicholas' onetime ballroom. Though Comrade & Mrs. Stalin live in three rooms at the rear of the Great Kremlin Palace, though they might have come to the party by taking 100 steps, they stayed away?for excellent reasons...
...citizen and has been in the shipping business 40 years, had reason to be proud last week. For the North Atlantic Passenger Conference, to which all North Atlantic lines belong, decided that Mr. Lederer is the man to smooth shipping's troubled waters, made him their "tsar." With power to go through members' books to see that tariffs are being adhered to, he will rule the Conference with the same undisputed power that its captains have at sea. While the choice must be ratified at the Conference's meeting abroad next week, shippingmen felt there was little...
...fire insurance companies announced they had selected Paul L. Haid, 44, to be supreme arbiter over their underwriting of 75% of the U. S. business. Industries from corsets to axe-handles have their "institutes," to settle disputes. But more & more tycoons are coming to believe that an absolute "tsar" is the only good solution. Rubber companies recently sought George Taylor Bishop as their ruler (TIME, April 18). Oil has often been on the verge of appointing one. The prime examples of U. S. business tsars are cinema's Will H. Hays, baseball's Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...