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...When Odessa struck oil 15 years ago, West Texans yahooed with delight. Last week, when a man named Hoiles struck Odessa (pop. 40,000), few citizens knew whether to toss their Stetsons into the air or jump on them. Even by Texas standards, the newcomer looked as ruggedly individualistic as a steer on the loose...
...Odessa hadn't caught up with bebop yet, but it already had too many low American habits to suit Pravda. "How can we get rid of swing and jitterbugging," Pravda demanded to know, "when . " . vulgar melodies [like] Pussycats, Crazy Girl and White Moth sound in the public places . . . pampering low-grade tastes . . . while folk and real ball dances are unavailable...
...home" divisions are already being grouped in six armies whose locations suggest the fronts on which Soviet Russia expects to have to fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight...
There was no joy in Odessa. Telephones rang and excited voices demanded, "Give us back Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov!" The staid Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud headlined excitedly: "Kidnaping in Odessa." Three of the city's leading football (i.e., soccer) heroes -as dear to Odessa as Williams to Boston or Feller to Cleveland-had disappeared...
...days later, the mystery was cleared up. Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov popped up in the line-up of the Kiev Dynamo team, which needed extra strength for a big game with Leningrad. No matter how loudly they squawked, Odessa fans could do no more about it than Detroit fans could when the Tigers sold Hank Greenberg. Local officials explained, "Alas, it's all over. It's out of our hands now." The Kiev Dynamo, like all the Dynamo soccer teams, is sponsored by the Soviet secret police...