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...marriage. As a 33-year-old artillery lieutenant, Yakov was taken prisoner near Smolensk in World War II's early days. Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov's Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin's second marriage, remembers that her brother Vasily (who died in a drunken auto accident in 1962) brought home handbills bearing a picture of Yakov that the Germans had dropped over Moscow to prove that they had taken Stalin...
...Dracula movies? Perhaps a new submarine? Those glorious guesses were obtained when 2,000 Britons were asked to identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...
...Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva...
NONFICTION 1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1) 2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (2) 3. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (5) 4. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (3) 5. Incredible Victory, Lord (7) 6. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (4) 7. Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan (8) 8. Too Strong for Fantasy, Davenport 9. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (6) 10. Between Parent and Child, Ginott...
...Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva...