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Three young women rescue the evening on Joy Street. Catherine Whitfield, as the chatterboxy but clever Penny, cops the laurels. Her portrayal of an intelligent woman acting dumb is convincing where it could easily be fatiguing. The part of the other woman in her husband's life was assigned to...
Experienced Empress. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was born too early to believe that he who controls Alaska may control the Pacific (as Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Co., believed). When the rich merchants of Siberia pleaded with her to make Alaska a Russian colony, the Empress slapped...
Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America.
*On St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572 French Catholics, egged on by Catherine de Medici, began to slaughter 50,000 Hugenots.
On the subject of a second front the two men, tough and plain-spoken in their respective ways, presumably had plenty to say to each other. W. Averell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt, sat in on the conferences with instructions that Roosevelt would be in agreement with "all decisions taken here...