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...population in 1925, now has 700,000. The outlook of its leaders is like that of last century's western Americans. The double-laned Krasny Prospekt is one of Russia's finest avenues. An $8,000,000, 2,000-seat opera house is rich in red velvet, lush statuary, a Phantom-of-the-Opera chandelier, a 105 by 105 ft. stage with an electrically driven, concrete safety curtain...
...clowning act is performed with a guitar-strumming stooge against a shiny backdrop that looks like the cover of a Pocket Books mystery. Tin Tan himself wears a cock's tail in his flat black homburg, a knee-length purple velvet jacket, a steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly...
...from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie, kiss me Frankie...
Behind the velvet-glove technique of offering concessions, within the formula, was Franklin Roosevelt's iron hand-and the iron hand was the news...
Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...