Joseph Stalin was solid. The voters in the Stalin Automobile Factory district in Moscow, after due deliberations, nominated him for re-election as their deputy to the Supreme Soviet. The vote: unanimous.
The Earl of Halifax, towering, impenetrably well-mannered British Ambassador to the U.S., denied that he was being recalled, but knew just what he would do when he was. Said the well-heeled Lord of Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire: "I'm going to become a farmer."
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who left a comfortable senatorial seat to join the fight in Europe, was out of the army as...
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