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Another aspect of the new Communism, long evident, is the worship of old national heroes. From the Soviet film capital at Alma Ata, beyond the Urals, came word that Hollywood-wise, English-speaking Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein has shot two-thirds of a new picture about Tsar Ivan (1530-1584). In Tsarist days, Russian school children learned that Ivan was called the Terrible because as a boy he enjoyed squashing little kittens to death, as a ruler he delighted in hacking off the heads of subjects...
Died. Metropolitan Sergei, 78, Patri arch of Moscow and All Russia; of a brain hemorrhage; in Moscow. A favorite churchman at the court of the last Tsar Nicholas II, in 1925 he became Patriarch of the then unrecognized Russian Or thodox Church. He doggedly insisted on peace with Bolshevism as the price for the Church's survival. His years of patient waiting were rewarded last year with the official restoration of the Church, his own formal recognition as Patriarch (TIME, Sept. 13 et seg.). A great theological scholar, he last month challenged the Pope as vicar of Christ, proposed...
Died. Will Caton, 66, ace breeder and driver of harness horses ; after long illness; in Cleveland. As a 16-year-old, Caton drove at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was straightway hired by the late Tsar of Russia. After eleven years at the royal reins he signed with a Russian nobleman at an unheard-of guarantee ($20,000 a year and 15% of his winnings). Captured by Bolsheviks in 1917, he worked as a prisoner on a model stock farm. After three years he returned to the U.S.; won the 1932 Hambletonian ; rolled his employers' total...
...doing even better. Far-flung Northern Pacific last week reported eight months' profits at $5,787,000 against $3,227,000 last year; up-&-coming Alton Railroad cleared $1,752,000 v. $80,000; giant Union Pacific (whose up-from-the-tracks boss is now U.S. rubber tsar) bounced profits 133% to $25,106,000; once-busted Erie netted a record-smashing $9,124,000 against $5,292,000 last year...
Production Tsar Nelson made it clear that he wanted no part of this helping-hand job for WPB, which had troubles enough already with war production. What he wanted for himself was a clear conscience when and if he has to commit mayhem on small business to take over its equipment and manpower. The U.S. has over 2,750,000 small businesses (fewer than 100 employes) with a total payroll of more than 8,350,000 people. Though only 169,000 are manufacturers, they all consume manpower-and manpower in the long run may well become the most compelling...