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...When Pravda, the loud-yapping signal-caller of Communist journalism, recently blasted U.S. college football as the brutal product of predatory capitalists, i.e., college trustees, Sportwriter Nat Low of Los Angeles' Communist People's World took the handoff and scampered down the field with the ball...
...White House . . . and if they weren't, they wouldn't be reporters for long." Miss Small would be interested to meet Lawrence Todd and Robert Hall, who have covered White House press conferences for many years. As correspondent for Russia's Tass News Agency, Mr. Todd writes for Pravda and Izvestia; Mr. Hall covers for the Daily Worker. Neither of these reporters, we would suggest, is responsible to the White House...
...Russian Desk's endless reading of Soviet publications often seems a waste of time. Newspapers like Izvestia, the official government daily, and Pravda, the Communist Central Committee's daily, offer more propaganda than enlightenment Economic publications like Planned Economy, monthlies like Soviet State and Law, periodicals like Culture and Life and the Literary Gazette are more likely to run a Stalin homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted...
Marr, who advocated one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. From long experience Vishniak sat back to see which way the Marxian doctrinal ax would fall. His vigilance was rewarded by an 8,000-word blockbuster in Pravda from Stalin himself, demolishing the "false" foundations of the Marr theory and setting everybody straight. It also made a story for TIME'S July 3 issue-and another example of the editors' continuing attempt to convey the ways of the Soviet to TIME'S readers...
...sure whether there is any real connection between these two groups. American Communist leaders expressed horror at the attempt to assassinate the President, but Pravda lauded this expression of the Puerto Ricans' desire for independence. Some observers have linked the Nationalist movement with the Peroniaton of Argentina, who recently sponsored a labor conference at which Puerto Rican delegates demanded immediate independence for their island...