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...unrelieved picture the refugees paint-of an arrogant, hard-drinking, whoring youth-Vasily Iosifovich Stalin is obviously something more than that. A prime product of his environment, he is shrewd, tough and fanatic. As a pilot and commander, he showed some of the skill, high spirit and reckless abandon that Russia brought against the Nazis. He lives for Communism, displays nothing but hatred for the world outside, and little knowledge of it. He believes that Russia and the Red air force are invincible. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the City of Moscow...
...ball out of the park. He overworks the Caruso sob. His Italian is rough. He tends to swallow his notes. His brilliant tone is often "white," i.e., lacking resonance. Worst of all, from a singer's point of view, he is forcing his voice, especially in the abandon with which he hurls himself into high notes at top volume. Lanza's voice may be able to take this abuse for two or three more years before he hurts it, say the experts; ultimately, he will burn...
...Abandon Hops, All Ye . . . In Springfield, Ill., the Salvation Army 'bought a onetime brewery as a home for the rehabilitation of alcoholics...
...investigate. Best, a former president of the Wardens of America Association, was not afraid of the governor or anybody else. Said he: "I have used [the strap and wooden horse] through nine governors and I'll keep on using them, unless I'm specifically ordered to abandon them by the governor. I don't like to whip another human being. But these five men were dangerous. If they had been able to escape and free a lot of other dangerous men, there is no telling how many innocent people would have been killed. The lash...
...shek in 1942, Davies followed the line that Chiang's regime was hopelessly corrupt and doomed, that the Chinese Communists had "mass support" and were "the force destined to control China." Soldier Stilwell took the Davies position. In a 1944 memorandum, Davies wrote: "We should not now abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must make a determined effort to capture politically the Chinese Communists, rather than allow them to go by default wholly...