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...Thrillers. Reynolds was on the plane that brought Ambassadors Litvinoff and Steinhardt out of Russia. He picnicked with his companions on chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
...Eddy Gilmore was sitting in a Kuibyshev hotel with a friend one night last week when they heard a noise: crack, crack, boom...
...KUIBYSHEV--Reinforced Red armies have absorbed successfully the first impact of Germany's spring offensive, repulsing mechanized attacks along the entire front, including an assault by 100 tanks in the Crimson, the strongest since the battle for Moscow, Russia reported tonight...
...Government (but not Stalin) moved to Kuibyshev...
...embattled citizen like themselves. But the rest of the world has continued to think of him as the only living composer, aside from Finland's Jean Sibelius, who can make musical history by writing a new symphony. Last week musical history was again on the make. In Kuibyshev, secondary Soviet capital, the orchestra of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater began rehearsals on Shostakovich's long-heralded Symphony No. 7. Composer Shostakovich has dedicated his symphony, a musical expression of war's effect on "ordinary, simple people," to the citizens of Leningrad. Says he: "I always...