While faithfully drafting the commissioned portrait of Peacemaker Khrushchev abroad in a warm and receptive U.S. (TiME. Sept. 28), the Russian press has given the tour a play unprecedented in Soviet journalism. Readers have been treated to a feast of exhaustive, fulsome and extraordinary detail, including pictures of Mrs. Khrushchev—a woman in whose existence Red papers previously betrayed only a passive interest, or none at all. Last week Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), the official party organ, topped all the sensational journalism by publishing the first cartoon of a Soviet leader ever to appear in...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
