Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Haskell Coffin, 63, artist, whose pretty-girl pastels appeared for years on national magazine covers; a suicide; at a hospital in St. Petersburg...
...international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
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...prize rookie had lived up to his reputation all right-in 15 exhibition games he had batted .438, a better average than that of any other Yankee, including Batting Champion Joe Di Maggio. But the Scooter had a low number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie since Bob Feller...
Rollins is a pleasant little institution cuddling among the palms in north central Florida. It is within 200 miles of St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, other headline-hunting resorts that put on winter tennis tournaments. So when little Rollins offered them tennis scholarships last summer, it was hard for Miss Betz and Miss Bundy to refuse. Rollins also scooped up Tennis Aces Jack Kramer (U. S. No. 6) and Eddie Alloo...