Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg...
...bigger and sounder than ever. A bus-line authority said that trying to count the passengers was like counting the snowflakes that fell in Manhattan last week. The middleaged, the old, the thrifty young thronged ancient, calm St. Augustine, Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach on the Atlantic Coast. St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico did its usual huge and placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings of cautious baseball, and Webb's Cut Rate Store...
...bright Florida sunshine last week the lean, taciturn ex-open champion armored himself against his old opponent. Bucking tough competition in St. Petersburg's $5,000 open tournament, he wore a cap pulled down over his eyes. It didn't help: he finished out of the big money. Ruefully observing that a tournament golfer might add five years to his business career if he could keep out of the sun, Golfer Nelson pointed disgustedly to his bushy brows, said: "Notice how large those muscles are? That's from squinting...
...spring of 1917, a young man working in the Czar's War Department at St. Petersburg went to his office at the usual nine o'clock, and stayed till the usual five. All during the day he had been hearing vague rumors of troop movements, and after dinner he decided to go to a friend's house to get some definite news. He started out the door, but before he had taken many steps, the noise of a machine gun split the air; so he went back into the house and suppressed his curiosity for that evening. The next morning...
...Ballet Theatre is not quite a U. S. grass-roots enterprise. But neither is it hog-tied to the St. Petersburg-Paris-Monte Carlo tradition, as Mr. Hurok's ballets are. Founded by scholarly Princetonian Richard Pleasant, secretary of the old Mordkin Ballet, the Ballet Theatre has had many backers including Dancer Lucia Chase, widow of President Thomas Ewing Jr. of big Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. Among the ballerinas, best are Philadelphia-born Karen Konrad and beauteous 22-year-old Texan Nana Gollner...