Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear TIME-Reader: ABOARD the Polish ship Batory en route to Russia, Communist travelers gave Pierre Boulat, 31-year-old Paris photographer, a rough passage. "You are a dirty Fascist from TIME," the Communists jeered. "You are a corrupt photographer." But when the ship docked at Leningrad, the spirit of Geneva was still aglow. Soviet newsmen welcomed Boulat: "We know you are from TIME. How happy we are to see you!" And they whisked him about the city in a big black ZIS, stuffed him with food, and loaded him with gifts of caviar, jewelry and dolls...
Died. Archbishop Grigory, 86, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, who visited the U.S. in 1947 in a fruitless attempt to unite the Russian Orthodox Church in North America with the church in Moscow; in Leningrad...
...said that it had arranged tours to Russia, and that its first one was leaving Dec. 19, with successive ones departing the third Monday in every month. The tours will be almost entirely spent in Russia, with a brief stop in Scandinavia. In all, the groups will be in Leningrad and Moscow for 12 days...
...Justice William O. Douglas, he became the first man on TV not to win $100,000. His consolation: $50,000. Big Surprise may improve its low audience rating with the next contestant, sprightly Kyra Shirk, a housewife from York, Pa. who spent the war years as a citizen of Leningrad and a second lieutenant in the Red army. Her subject: wars and weapons...
...Frye certainly bought a long string of tickets during his trip. Arriving in Helsinki by plane on August 24, just after the close of Summer School in Cambridge, he proceeded from there to Leningrad, where he gave a talk on Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...