People, Apr. 26, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December.

In Oxford, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Faulkner, wife of Novelist William...

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