Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Czar Nicholas II sent him on an official mission to buy airplanes for a Russian air corps, later named him air chief of his Black Sea fleet-events which, in the Soviet view, obviously should not have occurred. Said Dorozynski last week: "Tell them I am strong, healthy, cheerful-and smiling...
...exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision...
...distinguished among other things for the fact that his wife Cosima ran away with (and eventually married) Richard Wagner. Johannes Brahms played with the Philharmonic as a piano soloist, and the famed Arthur Nikisch became its conductor in time to take the orchestra to Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. In the next half a century, a lot of things went out of the world, including czars, and Germany became famed for other names than Brahms, but the Berliners managed to go on making music -for much of the last 33 years under the late great...
...Russia also reserves the right to put in a claim, based on the 1820-21 voyage of Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, a Baltic German in the service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
Forty Pitheads. Vorkuta is a complex of prison camps, situated in the bleak tundra territory of European Russia on the river Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle, about 1,400 miles northeast of Leningrad. A century ago Czar Nicholas I's advisers suggested to him that he make a colony for political prisoners at Vorkuta, but when he learned the conditions, Nicholas decided that it was "too much to demand of any man that he should live there." The Soviets let the native Komi remain there, virtually ignored until 1942, until the invading Nazis captured the Donbas coal mines. Then...