He Went to Moscow, Too

In Russia WPB Boss Donald Nelson and the Russians fell madly in love. It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.

Don Nelson, back in Washington last week, told of a typical moment at one of those fabulous 25-toast sessions: "One of the officials seized a big china plate that was on the table. He said: 'When we Russians like somebody, we break a plate—like this.' And he raised his huge fist and crashed it down on the plate, smashing it to pieces."

Whereupon, said Nelson: "I reached out and grabbed two plates, and...