World War: Vodka to Super-Fire

Until Pandora, in the person of Adolf Hitler, pried open the Russian box, its contents were a general mystery. But now that the lid is off, all sorts of surprises have popped out.

> "The biggest surprise of all is the Red Army," said Willy Heineberg, a leaf merchant of Alliance Tobacco Co., to a New York Daily News reporter on his arrival back in Manhattan last week. He had been five months in Russia, traveled 22,000 miles and married a girl named Bianca Greif.

Said he: "One gets some impression of [the Army's]...

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