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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin left last Aug. 19 for his Black Sea retreat, Sochi. He has not yet returned from his longest vacation in years. However, the machine that carries out his will never rests. Last week world Communism was still gaining in power on several fronts, notably China; but it was sharply checked in the crucial battle for Europe...
...pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their $120 into $6,000, the management changed the wheel heads...
...four final candidates for the Prize, Gide had been longest on the Academy's list. Runners-up: Benedetto Croce (81), Italian historian, philosopher and estheticist; T. S. Eliot (59), Anglo-Catholic poet and critic, who, unlike Gide, is an exponent of traditionalism; and François Mauriac (62), French novelist...
...steady flow of students in and out of the basement emporium yesterday, splitting into four lines which made the longest wait about twenty minutes as opposed to last year's fiasco which found hopeful fans shivering on Quincy Street sidewalks for upwards of two hours...
...chaff before the first squad cut on Friday. He would hazard no predictions at practice and, noting only that the team was in far better shape than it was a year ago. But he tempered even this optimism with the statement that "They'd better be; they face the longest, toughest schedule in Crimson history...