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29 march 1968 Dear Jack. ViVA! arrow pointing to newspaper clipping IT's nice to know The "Jack Conroy of Russia" is NOT forgotten. arrow pointing to a second clipping Here is an item you can give to Tillery to take up at AA. I think drunken horse Riding is dangerous - and unfair to the horse. Both these news items are from underlined: "The NY Times" 29 March '68
We vetoed our Missouri Trek because TOO far for 3½ days.
Love to all. - Joe Diggles P.S. Is MR. Coleman the saloon-arsonist still in trouble?
Gorky Is Eulogized By Soviet Leaders On Birth Centenary MOSCOW, March 28 (Reuters) -- The Soviet Union celebrated today the centenary of the birth of Maxim Gorky, whose bitter stories of tramps, drunkards and thieves in pre-revolutionary Russia fathered the official artistic doctrine of socialist realism.
The centenary is being treated as a major event. Dozens of articles in the press have stressed the message that the Communist party-prescribed method for all the arts pioneered by Gorky at the turn of the century is still compulsory. A steady stream of people, including Soviet leaders, filed in homage past a memorial to Gorky in a central Moscow square yesterday. By nightfall, the area was a mass of wreaths. The Government newspaper Izvestia printed a photograph of the writer on its front page under the headline "Artist, Revolutionist, Humanist."
Name Means Bitter
Gorky -- the pen name means Bitter -- was born Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov on March 28, 1868, in a middle class family fallen on hard times.
Soviet critics, who contend that socialist realism is the highest form of artistic expression, regard him as the central figure of world literature in the 20th century.
But in spite of the official adulation heaped upon him here both during the Stalin's rule and since, Gorky identified himself with the Bolsheviks only in the last years before his death in 1946.
His death was probably caused by tuberculosis contracted in his early years.
During the purge trials of the late nineteen-thirties, Soviet officials charged that Gorky had been murdered by Stalin's opponents, but this accusation was later withdrawn by former Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Inebriated Equestrian Sentenced to 5 Days
AUBURN, N. Y., March 28 (UPI) -- Ted Wiffen was sentenced to five days in jail today for riding a horse while intoxicated. Recorded John L. Naskiewcz issued the sentence in lieu of a $25 fine. The police said Mr. Wifen, who lives in Cayuga, was intoxicated yesterday when they halted him on his horse near Auburn State Prison. He had fallen off several times, they added. While the horse was taken back to Cayuga, MR. Wiffen spent hte [sic] night in the local jail awaiting his court appearance.