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Churchill liked to relax with a hot water bottle wrapped in a panda cover. Stalin had thin, sloping shoulders and achieved his robust look with a padded military greatcoat. George Bernard Shaw teased Nancy Astor about her boyish bosom. Such are the recollections in Memories, the just-published autobiography of Biologist-Author Sir Julian Huxley, 76. And how would Sir Julian himself like to be remembered? "Not primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human, and nothing in external nature, was alien...
...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...
Frost still silvered the trees on Strasbourg's Avenue de la Paix last week as Charles de Gaulle stood up and peeled off his khaki greatcoat. Before 2,800 officers summoned from Algeria, Germany and France, he launched into a sonorous speech commemorating the 17th anniversary of Strasbourg's liberation by French tanks. "France," declared its President, "is again menaced, body and soul." Later, staring icily at a tight-lipped audience that included 80 generals and admirals, President de Gaulle turned abruptly to the force that menaces France more urgently than any outside invader: its divided, disaffected army...
...military council for the Ukraine. In January 1943, just after Malinovsky's army had completed the southern arc of the encirclement of Stalingrad, Western correspondents recall meeting him in a tiny, unheated village schoolhouse, short-legged and big-hipped, like a grizzly bear in a brown greatcoat and karakul hat. He traced with a thick forefinger the movement of the fleeing Germans on a field map, naming their divisions and commanders, all with a cool, precise assessment and without the slightest vainglory...
...dark and the door opens. The figure enters. It pauses. It is a man wearing a greatcoat-putts down his collar. He goes to a small oil lamp and lights it. In the light we see Beria's face . . . The door creaks open . . . Another bundled figure enters the dacha . . . It is Malenkov...