Word: neva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel called The Yershov Brothers by one Vselod Kochetov is proving to be one of the most dramatic literary sensations of the decade in Russia. The 75,000 copies of the magazine Neva, in which it first appeared, were sold out almost immediately; a paperback edition of half a million sold out in one day. The Yershov Brothers bears some resemblance to Not by Bread Alone in its plot and its factory setting, but unlike Dudintsev, Kochetov will never have to make apologies to the Central Committee for inaccurate descriptions of Socialist life. His book is a sharp attack...
...Deborah Kerr over as bumpy a road to love as Hollywood has ever contrived. Deborah is an elegantly kept (by Richard Denning) lady with a Park Avenue lust nest; Cary is a charm-laden bachelor on the verge of merging with America's heiress with the mostest (Neva Patterson). From the moment they meet on a transatlantic liner, this cynical, money-grabbing pair feel an overwhelming compulsion to give up their comfortable arrangements for a tumble into each other's arms...
...Czar's Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture). U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was asleep, and a U.S. Red Cross missionary, Raymond Robins, was writing in his diary: "A great day for Russia and the world...
...Sent to the Senate the names of 272 nominees for postmasterships. Among them: Neva B. Quick, to be postmistress at Nichols...
After squiring Miss America, Neva Jane Langley, around Vancouver, B.C. Reporter Jack Wasserman began to worry about the future of the race. "I walked through Stanley Park on Sunday with the prettiest girl in North America, and nobody even whistled-in fact, we had a hard time getting served at the park popcorn concession." Even more disillusioning, Neva refused to pose for cheesecake, because "the winner is picked for beauty, poise and talent, so posing in a bathing suit would undo all the good work the foundation is trying...