RUSSIA: Zags Jammed

Among endless whispered Soviet quips at Josef Stalin is the one about Lenin's spunky, seamy-faced widow. "Tell that old woman," Dictator Stalin is supposed to have once roared, "that if she doesn't shut up, I'll appoint a new widow of Lenin!"

In Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2ยข worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially...

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