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...loyal Opposition, Conservatives rose in a body and cheered. Then they sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. This was too much for veteran Laborite backbencher George Griffith. He burst into the Red Flag. Soon all the Government members joined in. Through the ancient chamber rang the words of the left-wing inspirational hymn (tune: O, Tannenbaum...
...joined the Society of Timid Souls, a three-year-old, self-help group, which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
...Shot at Headquarters. Barmine's story really begins in 1934, when a shot rang out in the Leningrad headquarters of the Communist Party. A student had killed Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party secretary. Practically nobody outside Russia had ever heard of Kirov (he was Stalin's political heir apparent and a special pleader for peace between Stalin and the opposition). But he is not likely to be forgotten, for his assassination touched off one of history's most cryptic and luridly arresting episodes-Russia's great Purge...
Then one fine sunny day the telephone rang in Russia's Athens legation. It was the Greek Press Agency, asking which Soviet vice commissar of war had just com mitted suicide. Barmine did not know the answer but he foresaw the worst...
Baltimore stockyards rang with the impatient bellows of 337 cows, the whinnies of 396 restless mares. A ship stood empty in the harbor, ready to load. And across the water, Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece, Albania and Czechoslovakia (with more than five million farm animals lost in the war) waited hungrily for replacements...