RUSSIA Marrying Djugashvili?
Surprised in London last week was Spencer Williams, longtime Secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. He was surprised because no Moscow correspondent has dared smuggle out the story of handle-bar-mustached Mr. Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili's latest heartthrob.
Since the Dictator lost his second wife (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) he has "reverted to the Oriental type." The Dictator is from semi-Oriental Georgia, famed for such other torchbearers as the Marrying Mdivanis. First of his friends was the sister of handsome onetime Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich.
That Joseph Stalin would ever go...
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