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Stalin looked at his visitor. His visitor looked at the ceiling. Said Stalin: "Don't look at the ceiling. You won't find the answer there. Better look at me and say what you think...
...visitor was Planemaker Alexander Yakovlev, designer of the wicked fighting plane YAK, and it was the first of many sessions with No.1. Last week Moscow's Pioneer ran Yakovlev's intimate reminiscences of Stalin as a man of precepts...
...only is the increased population satirized but the crowded housing conditions are also subjected to fun-poking. The plot concerns an Army officer who comes home on furlough just after his wife has had a blessed event. From then on, complications galore set in and every casual visitor to the household becomes involved. Before the evening is over, the apartment is filled with expectants, while an aged and feeble doctor, who steals the show, tries to cope with their difficulties...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the surprise of jaws-ajar M.P.s guarding his London headquarters, admitted a casual visitor from the ranks, a buck private who simply said: "I'd like to see the General, if he's not too busy. Tell him I'm from Abilene, Kansas." The private was 23-year-old Walter Thorpe, once a hand on the Abilene farm owned by the General's brother. After 20 minutes of amiable talk about Kansas, the wheat crops and the Army, the General wrote a note to prove that it really happened: "Dear Thorpe...
When the distinguished visitor gave his first press conference last week in Manhattan, Americans saw an extraordinarily mild-eyed, 69-year-old prelate whose six-foot height was dissembled in an habitual stoop of age. His was not the constrained mildness of a prince of the church whose natural fierceness of temper has been beaten and battered into benignity. It was a natural gentleness refined by devotion, austerity and great human sympathy. And there was a sense of easy power about him, fitting as comfortably as his open prelatical coat and apron, his greavelike buttoned black gaiters. The Archbishop...