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...Columns" stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...
...news of Soviet Russia is cabled by Walter Duranty of the New York Times residing in Moscow. Best news raids into Russia have been made by Miss Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) and H. R. Knickerbocker, both for the New York Evening Post.* But the most spectacular recent bit of U. S. newswork in Red Russia was the extraction from Soviet "Dictator" Josef Stalin of the first interview he has ever granted to the Occidental Press (TIME, Dec. 1). Hero of this scoop was Correspondent Eugene Lyons of the United Press. Last week the United Press proudly relayed Correspondent...
...However," interrupted Groucho, "I once left the stage to enter the railroad business, but I soon tired of the ties we received on Christmas. I might be a bit premature," he added, "but I contracted that on my father's side...
Gaining the upper hand by the deceptive left-handed forward passing of Dean Foster, the faculty tied up the game on a 65 yard run for a touchdown by Dr. M. T. Copeland '69, the left end. Dr. Copeland produced a shifty bit of footwork, dodging the entire student team. A. S. Dewey assured the tie by his kicking the extra point...
...have been glutted with news, essays and articles on the Soviet regime. There are rumours that Stalin is fighting for a lost cause; there are defiant denunciations which proclaim Russia a strong child that will soon grow up. No one knows what to believe. The world is waiting, a bit impatiently...