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...almost empty since a recent amnesty-"only some 10,000 of us, dangerous criminals, were left." With bitter irony, he professes to have flushed the torn-up manuscript of his book down the toilet. It was recovered and pieced together only through the diligence and ingenuity of Tolya and Vitya, two secret policemen, members of "the dread invisible army," who have invented a special sewer-searching technique for screening the citizenry's most private acts...
...Lasik Roitschwantz (TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...
...each decathlon event since 1953, now exceeds Johnson in the pole vault and 1,500 meters, compares well with him in the broad jump, high jump and discus. Kuznetsov is proudly grooming his five-year-old son with the same thoroughness : "When we wake up in the morning, Vitya jumps on my bed and I hold him up balanced with one foot on my palm. He's got a long way to go to be come an athlete, but now is the time to start training for the future." Kuznetsov is a Johnson fan: "He is a very fine...
Mozart: Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...
...floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with, him and live for her "ideals." "Don't be cruel, Vitya," she cried...