Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spryest baseball crowd in the country are the oldsters who sit in the winter sun at Waterfront Park, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ordinarily at this time of year the benches crackle with gossip about the newly arrived Yankees and Cardinals, who have trained at St. Pete for many a spring. This year, with big-league ball clubs warming up in their own backyards, St. Pete's oldsters must be content with their own ball clubs: the Kubs and Kids...
Last week, as their series approached the finish, the teams were neck & neck, eleven victories apiece. The eventual winner will play the St. Petersburg High School girls' team-an annual event that draws some 3,000 spectators...
...Judge and is sworn in as an American citizen. His Naturalization papers are then made a part of his Army records and he receives them only on honorable discharge from the service. CORPORAL JAMES V. MORGAN CORPORAL WILLIAM C. KLUTTZ Naturalization Dept. Army Air Forces Basic Training Center St. Petersburg...
With two exceptions,* all of today's first-rank violinists are Jews. A good percentage of them are also Russians. And practically all of the Russians (Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, etc.) are onetime pupils of crotchety, bearded, Hungarian-Jewish Leopold Auer,† who went to St. Petersburg in 1868 to teach at Czar Alexander II's Imperial Conservatory of Music...
Manhattan Socialite Henry Bergh was 50 when he began to chase droshkies. One day in 1863 a St. Petersburg droshky driver was merrily lashing his horse in the Russian manner. Suddenly a smart carriage pulled alongside and Bergh, who was First Secretary of the U.S. Legation, bellowed to his coachman: "Tell that fellow to stop!" Obediently the droshky driver dropped his whip. First Secretary Bergh nodded approval, set out in pursuit of other inhumane drivers...