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But the lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers.
Reporter Lyons, 32, short, dark, was educated in the college of the city of New York and Columbia University. He began newspaper work on the Erie, Pa. Dispatch-Herald, later joined the New York Bureau of Tass (Russian news) Agency. Three years ago he was made manager of the United Press Bureau in Moscow. There, for diversion, his beauteous U. S. wife has played in two or three Russian films.
*TIME summarized Miss Thompson's series of 24 daily articles (TIME, April 2, 1928), will summarize the current Knickerbocker series of 24 articles when complete.
†Stalin derives from stal (steel). And last week a group of engineers at Baku, Russia, developers of a new superhard alloy, christened it Stalinite "to symbolize firmness and power."