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...Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, Ballerina Chase spends her winters touring with the company, has a summer home at Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe...
...except the high commands knew last week whether Russia's center drive was a series of quickly improvised actions or a full-fledged counteroffensive, such as the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky plotted in the Red strategy books (TIME, Aug. 25). Marshal Tukhachevsky's ideas, as developed by disciples, called for a carefully prepared initial break-through by a "shock" army of twelve divisions (228,000 men) on a 30-mile front, supported by 2,500 artillery pieces, 960 tanks, 600 planes...
...take historians years to reconstruct the Battle of Smolensk shot by shot. But it is already possible to reconstruct its general outlines. For the Russian plan of defense was based on a single document-a field manual designated as PU-36, which was drawn up in 1936 by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, then Vice Commissar of Defense. It was his last great service to the Red Army. He was executed in the purge a year later...
...mercilessly, but enabled the German command to know what was going on while the Russian command was largely in the dark; 2) the inability of the Reds, who did not see the battle whole, to mount anything bigger than local counterattacks. Except for these two contingencies, Panzer-conscious Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a dead man, might have licked Adolf Hitler...
...officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...