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...Groove. Molotov was only one of the 14-man Politburo (see chart) which made that policy, and every decision of the 14 could be changed or reversed by one man, Stalin. But in the field of foreign affairs Molotov was the chief executor of the Politburo's will. Last week a diplomat who has spent more than a decade in close study of the Russians called Molotov "perhaps the best executor of policy in the world...
Died. Julia Elizabeth Westfall Wolfe, 85, mother of the late, prodigious Novelist Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel ; Of Time and the River) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan, after a gadabout week as Tom's literary executor (one morning she stayed up till three autographing books - TIME, Dec. 10). Driving, dominating, possessive, she was the home to ward which her angel looked. Said he: "All the critics in the world may say it's good but a man's own mother will know...
...Admiral of Flensburg. The chief instrument and executor of German surrender policy was Grand Admiral Karl Dbnitz. In retrospect, his rise to this eminence of disaster was revealing...
...Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...
More important than these amiable efforts, Stettinius in 14 months had again proven himself a loyal underling. He was certainly not so capable nor informed as previous Under Secretaries-Sumner Welles, for example. But he had been a faithful executor of the Secretary's will, as they...