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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...