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Despite such European praise, Cherkassky has not played in the U.S. in twelve years, and few U.S. concertgoers can even recall his early U.S. career. Son of an Odessa dentist, Shura emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was eleven, made his concert debut in Baltimore when he was twelve, but never really succeeded on the concert circuit. At war's end, just as a whole new generation of pianists was growing up, Cherkassky headed for Europe, where he now gives about 80 concerts per season, is booked as long as five years in advance. All during...
...York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer of sorts. He served as correspondent for several U.S. papers during the Russo-Turkish war-covering the hostilities from a brothel in Odessa, some say, though Harris insisted that he never left dashing General Skoboleff's side...
Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
...reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant, in constant danger of death from pneumonia or choking in his own saliva, was still an insupportable burden to his father (a low-paid...
...most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals. He also wanted peace doves released at each ceremony. But of all the proposals Izvestia received, none hit the mark so squarely as one from Odessa. After complaining about the "colorless and dreary routine" of the registry offices, V. Runanov suggested that every city have "a special building-the best in town" just for marriages and other happy events. Last week, as if to make V. Runanov's dream come true, the U.S.S.R. got its first...