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...tanker Apsheron neared her home port of Odessa this week, leaving a frothing wake of hard words and hurt feelings...
...Odessa, Grace Marie Olliff, 20, lay critically ill after an auto crash in which her skull, pelvis and left leg were broken. Doctors said that she must have blood transfusions to save her life. The patient said she was not a Jehovah's Witness, would accept the blood. But her father William, 51, pushed into her room and shouted: "You're trying to kill my girl." Flanked by his two sons, he stood guard at the door to prevent a transfusion...
...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; Clovis, N. Mex. News-Journal; Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat; Odessa, Texas American; Pampa, Texas News...
Oistrakh's parents (his father was a gifted amateur violinist, his mother a professional singer) started their boy off young. At five, David was studying violin in Odessa, his home town. He moved to Moscow in 1928 after a successful concert tour, continued to build his reputation in Russia, made brief appearances in France, Holland, Sweden and Belgium. In 1937, he won first prize in the Concours Eugene Ysaye, Belgium's international violin competition, later was awarded a first-class Stalin Prize. Now, between concerts, he teaches at the Moscow Conservatory...
Sorry, Wrong Number. In Odessa, Texas, a woman called at the census office to be counted because she was not on speaking terms with her next door neighbor, the enumerator. In Canton, Ohio, a man phoned the census office to correct the income figure he had given when interviewed at home, explained that he did not want his wife to know exactly how much he made. In St. Louis, the census director agreed to mail out forms to three spinster sisters who feared that the neighbors would talk if a male counter entered their home...