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...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...
Wrote Zoya to Nadejda when her mother succumbed to a paralyzing attack of sciatica: "With Olympian calm, I put on my coat and go .to drown myself in the Neva...
...nothing ever comes of it. Either the Neva is frozen, or I meet somebody I know on the way and so am forced to put it off." Problem in Selection. Sonya Shostakovich's maternal solicitude for Mitya, who was a frail youth afflicted with tuber ulosis, bordered on mania. "Suppose the ceiling of our house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya...
Thus, in extremity, did Klimenti Voroshilov ring in the old, beloved duty: manning the barricades. The Neva's left bank, scene of bloodshed in two Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...
...with the sky aglow from Arctic lights and the birch trees in the parks shining against the dark earth. Students study at their windows, needing no artificial light; sometimes they go out and stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees. On this street is one of the world...