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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unprecedented in Soviet journalism. Readers have been treated to a feast of exhaustive, fulsome and extraordinary detail, including pictures of Mrs. Khrushchev-a woman in whose existence Red papers previously betrayed only a passive interest, or none at all. Last week Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), the official party organ, topped all the sensational journalism by publishing the first cartoon of a Soviet leader ever to appear in the Russian Press...
...world. Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000) Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 35, is very well known indeed, partly because he is Khrushchev's son-in-law. But though Adzhubei might have been helped by the family connection, his ability is not disputed; as editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda (party youth organ) from 1957 to 1959, he cut down on party propaganda, racked up a notable circulation increase. Author Mikhail Sholokhov, 54, is a devout Bolshevik who fought the White Guards in the Russian civil war, the craftsman who penned And Quiet Flows the Don and Virgin Soil Upturned...
...traditions" and "looked somehow conceited." Yet it was only a squeak, lost among the cheers. In five concerts last week, Bernstein took Moscow by storm. Composer Aram Khachaturian rushed to pump Bernstein's hand after performances, bubbled over with rave reviews in the government's official organ, Izvestia, and added special praise for Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 ("Age of Anxiety"). Said another top Russian composer, Dmitry Kabalevsky, after hearing Bernstein's rendition of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: "Never have I heard a better interpretation...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...
Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...