Word: leningraders
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...People. One typical measure of this love is the superior attitude toward the rival city of Leningrad (or St. Petersburg, as many oldsters still call it), which Peter the Great built. Disaster cannot kill this feeling for Moscow, and exile only enhances it. Last week, a Muscovite who has not seen his birthplace in 30 years reminisced...
Curtain Up. In Leningrad, the Russian fur trust held its first public postwar auction. The Russians, who frown on large foreign embassy staffs and restrict the number of U.S. newsmen to eight, consider fur traders birds of a different capitalistic feather. Among about 100 foreign fur brokers invited were 40 Americans. The guests bought $7,000,000 worth of sables, ermine and muskrat and bid up Siberian Bargusinsky sable to a postwar high of $550 a skin...
...morning, the train from Leningrad stopped near the Finnish frontier. A captain, in the green-tabbed uniform of the Soviet Security Police, and a buxom woman interpreter came into my compartment. The woman pulled my bed apart and turned over the mattress. The pair found only one thing which pleased them: the embossed, lavender-colored propusk (pass) to Red Square for the May Day parade. The woman said in awe: "Neither of us has ever seen one of these. . . . Did you see Stalin...
...fill the hole left by Spruille Braden, the President this week picked a different sort of peg: veteran Career Diplomat Norman Armour, who retired in 1945 after 30 years of able service that took him from Leningrad to Madrid. Careerman Armour was slated to take over a new, expanded job as Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs...
...spite of his efforts to stay out of the limelight, shy Dmitri Shostakovich stole the show. One of the festival's big events was his Eighth Symphony, conducted by friend Eugene Mravinsky (to whom the Eighth is dedicated), conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. When the Czech radio recently played the Eighth, the score was altered because it was considered too difficult to play; this time Mravinsky brought along his own score...