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To the lands she had conquered Russia had brought not only the sword but the salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important...
Wolfing the Sheep
After Attlee's glowing comments re Churchill. Churchill is certainly wolfing the sheep by his nonetheless apt description [that Attlee is "a sheep in sheep's clothing"; TIME, Nov. 19]
Moneyed Man. After college Fadiman taught high-school English (1925-27), then became a manuscript reader for Simon & Schuster, book publishers. Soon he was editor-in-chief. In 1933, still hanging on to an S & S editorial job, he joined the New Yorker. Naturally a fast reader, he became even...
At week's end, timed like an explosion, came a Moscow announcement that Maxim Litvinoff, great & good friend of collaboration, had been removed as Russian Ambassador to the U.S. and an unknown diplomat, Charge d'Affaires Andrei A. Gromyko, given his place. There was other strong evidence that...