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Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Married. Celeste Holm, 26, adaptable actress who played a home wrecker in The Women, an aging cipher in The Time of Your Life, a rather naughty girl in Oklahoma!; and A. Schuyler Dunning, 36, ex-A.A.F. captain; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Back down the other side of the highway came one of the early casualties- a dusty small truck, bent squarely in the middle and looking quite bewildered, towed by a wrecker. When the opposing forces clashed, they clashed with the greatest violence. I remembered what Corporal Melvin Stottlemyer of Muncie, Ind. had told me: "I wouldn't miss this show for anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New MacArthur Strategy | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Saturday Evening Post paid $1,500 out of court for calling a man a "Stalinist busybody." The Post recently paid $11,000 for calling someone else "a Communist wrecker in American labor." One reason for the big difference in payoffs: one man had only been damned in passing, the other had been dealt with at length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is Communist a Dirty Word? | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony, Mrs. Powell told virtually all: "I pleaded with him to make good our marriage, in view of the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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