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...York World's Fair, then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister, its staff had already become Ottawa's second-largest (only the U.S. Embassy staff is bigger...
...members, having heard Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden make a report that read like a compendium of communiques from Teheran and Cairo, had turned to an exploration of future British policy. What startled the incredulous Nancy was the way Tories, Independents, Laborites agreed that Britain must: 1) revive its faith in the Commonwealth, take steps to strengthen and streamline it; 2) extend the Commonwealth to the little democracies of Western Europe, lend every aid to rebuild France so that she "can have an honored place in the group...
Fahey had published a revised, wartime edition of his Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a compendium on the U.S. Navy more complete even than Jane's famed Fighting Ships.* The public grabbed copies for a first look at many heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...
...Zimmer, Mann owed more than his plot. From his Maya, a translation (into German) of a gigantic compendium of Hindu mythology, Mann took detail, background, much, very likely, of his philo-symbological machinery. It is Dr. Zimmer too who best summed up this novel: "It is as if Hindemith composed a one-act opera, availing himself of the motifs from The Twilight of the Gods...
Last week the Council issued Volume I, No. 1 of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. A compendium of scientific fact and fancy, the Journal offered no clear-cut conclusions on the cause & cure of alcoholism, left the lay reader with the sobering impression that a man staggering down the street is a dark scientific mystery...