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While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow. The city's finest tailors and bootmakers were called in to pad out his spindly frame, add a bit to his 5 ft. 3 in. height. Vasily shot up to captain, major, lieutenant colonel, then colonel. He cut quite a figure in actresses' dressing rooms...
Before leaving Free Berlin he wrote the CRIMSON, "Tomorrow I pad over to the Weltjugendfestspiel and see what I can see. Maybe I'll get shot. There are more Folk Police per square foot of ground than I've ever seen in my life...
...goes around unsuccessfully hunting a second wife. All the time his capable, attractive housekeeper (Billie Worth) silently yearns for him, though-except for the fact that he is Joe E. Brown -there's no telling why. The tale has little substance and less suspense, and has to pad out its skimpy plot with a lot of courting among the younger...
...table where she sat. The talks began, voices carried through the slatted doors. Vernice Anderson told newsmen that she just "automatically" started writing. "It was under no one's instruction," she added. "I hadn't even gone there with a regular notebook. I happened to have a pad of lined paper and I just began notes. It seemed the thing...
...nuns in the convent of the Little Company of Mary in Rome pad very softly past a certain room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana...