The stony-faced Russian on the cover is Marshal Grigory (frequently rendered Georgi) Zhukov, 49, sometime chief of operations of the Russian general staff and commander on the southern front. He wears at his neck Marshal’s Star; at upper left, two Orders of Suvorov; and at upper right the Gold Star as a Hero of the Soviet Union. Others: two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, Stalingrad medal.
Note: This is an encore post from 2014.
July 31, 1944
I’m a bit late in posting this issue….
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, President Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented fourth term. Vice President Henry Wallace, however, loses the nomination to Harry Truman, “a machine politician who has made a good Senate record and who had the blessing of President Roosevelt. Neither an extreme New Dealer nor an extreme conservative, he was promptly dubbed “The Missouri Compromise,” Life said.
Meet professor Alexander Ivanovich Petrunkevitch, Yale’s “spider man.”
In the movies this week: Linda Darnell.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
“Seems to Me You Have a Complete Disregard for the Female of the Species.”
As others before him, Lawrence Lipton, Boswell of the beatniks, has learned that all sorts of unlikely things can happen when a person writes a book. Exhibit A is a letter Lipton received from D.A. MacInnes of Chicopee Falls, Mass. In it was a wryly amusing sales pitch MacInnes had received from a plywood firm in Memphis.
I don’t know Edd Byrnes personally, and it’s probably for the best.
“Great Scott! I’ve Kept You Rigid for Almost Two Hours! Why Didn’t You Stop Me, Miss Simmons?
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