Foreign News: Missing Persons Report

Name: Vassily Djugashvili-Stalin. Address: Soviet Air Force, Moscow.

Age: 31 or 32. Sex: Male. Family Status: Married, two children.

Occupation: Airplane pilot, Guards Lieutenant General of Aviation.

Description: Small (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky (about 155 Ibs.); sandy hair, hazel eyes.

Characteristics: Vain, boisterous, a heavy and durable drinker.

Last Seen: Moscow, Red Square, 10:45 a.m., March 9, 1953, bearing the pall of his father, Joseph Stalin.

Facts of Case: Since Stalin's funeral, subject has been conspicuously absent from public places, from military and diplomatic functions, including last month's big Aviation Day show, in which he used to lead the big aerial review.

Clues: A Western diplomat returned...

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