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Once the Leftist has nestled in to the security of the Commissar's creed he is not even critical of the Commissar's most outrageous acts. In the book's longest essay, Koestler discusses "the stupendous . . . ignorance of Soviet reality among the addicts of the Soviet myth." Soviet addicts cannot, or will not, believe that capital punishment is the penalty for going on strike in Russia. They cannot believe that a Soviet citizen may not leave his home for as little as 24 hours without notifying the police; that no one may go abroad without permission (under...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Harry Truman methodically prepared himself for the big event. He discussed it earnestly with Britain's handsome Anthony Eden, who was hurrying back home from San Francisco. He had another conference with ex-Secretary Cordell Hull at the Bethesda Naval Hospital-the third and longest (50 minutes) since he became President. From Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt (who accompanied his father to Teheran) and from Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who went along to Yalta), he got yet another fill-in on the Roosevelt policies. He had daily telephone conversations with Secretary of State Stettinius at San Francisco...
...likes to take fair chances, calls its operations "enterprise financing." Some 18 months ago, Chicago Corp. took the biggest chance of its corporate life. It sank more than $12,500,000 of its own cash, and another $44,000,000 borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., into building the longest natural gas pipeline in the world; 1,265 miles from its rich fields near Corpus Christi, Texas to West Virginia, hub of the profitable northern market...
Manhattan's substitute for crocuses-the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus-began its longest visit in history (47 days) at Madison Square Garden last week. It should also prove one of its most enjoyable visits. Done up in style, this year's circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen...
Crushed by Manners' death in 1928, Laurette Taylor threw over the theater and "went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...