Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founded (1794) by eight missionary priests from St. Petersburg, on Kodiak Island off Alaska...
...Russian statesmen act very much like their merely Russian predecessors. For illustration, he told of a prank played by William C. Bullitt when he was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1933-36). In the Embassy files, Bullitt found copies of the reports of Neill S. Brown, U.S. Minister to St. Petersburg nearly a century ago (1850-53). Bullitt changed a few names and details, sent the reports back as his own. The State Department took them for what they were: penetrating comments on contemporary Russia...
...side, Yordan is co-producing Ma-ritta Wolff's Whistle Stop (he wrote the script) with Seymour (Mayerling) Neben-zal. He has the script ready for his next movie, Crime and Punishment, with the setting changed from St. Petersburg to Boston...
After buying into Mid-Continent Airlines, Inc. and becoming a director, Ted Law laid out $250,000 for a substantial interest in Alaska Airlines. A month ago he persuaded chubby, bearded Harry R. Playford, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of St. Petersburg, Fla., to put in another $250,000. Marshall and Playford gave Law the job of civilizing the line...
Married. Beatrice Wasserman Buchalter, 40, nightclubbing widow of Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, gangster, and labor racketeer executed last year for a Murder, Inc. slaying; and Arthur Jarwood, 37, onetime Manhattan nightclub proprietor; she for the third time, he for the second; in St. Petersburg...