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ing, more haphazard graves dur-
ing the battle and mass graves
while the Germans were in flight.
Sometimes the Russian soldiers
had to finish burying their dead."
Magidoff made 14 trips to the
front - the only correspondent
to cover the entire war on the
Russian front.
THE TROUBLED face suddenly
brightened.
"Enough of this. I shall tell you
how I met my wife. I was ice skat-
ing in Russia in late 1935. Some-
how or other, I tripped and up
came a beautiful young Russian{
girl to help me to my feet. I was
definitely interested.
"It didn't take me long to spot
her again and I threw myself
right at her feet. Well, she helped
me up and we've been hanging
onto each other ever since.
~Now you be sure to put down
that I tripped. My wife is always
telling people what a terrible
skater I am."
Turning his mind from the past
to the present - to his life at the
University, he said, "Now I am a
teaching fellow and work for my
doctorate in the winter and write
in the summer. I really enjoy my
classes." He seemed a little sur-
prised at his own statement. "I
always thought I would like to
teach only Russian literature but
as a teaching fellow I had no
choice but to take language
classes. And I like it. Besides, now
I have a chance to do research
work.

the kind I was planning on.
"My first job was with a Brit-
ish group, but soonI went with
Associated Press. Since I came
from Russia- I told you I was
born in Kiev, didn't I -'it was
sort of natural that I should work
in Moscow. And there I stayed
until they threw me out.
"It wasn't hard to give up be-
ing a correspondent. There comes
a time when it is no thrill in get-
ting a scoop. That kind of thing
is for young men. Be sure to men-
tion my grey hair when you tell
them I said that."
MAGIDOFF has written four
books -- two on Russia and
two musical biographies. The first,
"In Anger and Pity" tells of his
experiences during his 13 years
as a foreign correspondent in
Moscow. This was later followed
by a study of Soviet totalitarian-
ism appropriately called "The
Kremlin vs. the People."
But Robert Magidoff's greatest
fame has come through his two
biographies.
The first of these was the life
of Yehudi Menuhin, a personal
friend of the Magidoffs. "On the
basis of this, I was invited by
Ezio Pinza to write the story of
his life. I'll never forget our last
interview.
"I had been working with him
for about three months, and it
was decided that April 30 would
be the last discussion before I
went up to New England for the
summer to write the book. Well.
I noticed he didn't look too well
and I left a little early. I was the
last person he ever spoke to co-
herently. His wife later told me
that before I had gotten to my
car she heard him fall. You know
that the stroke he had affected
his speech. Before he had a
chance to regain it, he was dead.
It is a very great pity."

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