Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dostoevski's life was as subterranean as the human nature he wrote of. As a young writer he haunted the windy corners and foul alleys of hated St. Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
Slover of Norfolk. Meanwhile, the Times-Dispatch passed into the hands of a Norfolk publisher, Samuel LeRoy Slover. Already owner of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Slover was busily building up a little news empire in Tidewater Virginia. Before long he had the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, a Petersburg paper, radio stations in all three cities...
...Three years ago the first of Feb. I fell on the sidewalk in St. Petersburg and fractured my left hip and have been a bed and wheelchair invalid. I am 76 years, I got complications and ended with arthrtis, I take shots of vitamin B and sufer for which I pay my Dr. $3.00 I am doing without it so I can send it to the Met. Opera. If this works out all right and I dont have a return of that awful pain I may send $3 later...
Year ago a shrewd, rich St. Petersburg, Fla. real-estate promoter named Clinton Mozley Washburn picked up a subtropical island for a figurative song. Three hundred acres of tangled mangrove, pine, palm and sandy beach, just off the Florida Gulf Coast 23 miles northwest of Tampa, the property (Hog Island to the natives; Caladesi to mapmakers) apparently wasn't worth much in the nude. Promoter Washburn, who holds a big backlog of Florida real estate (including some $250,000 worth of cheaply bought Gulf Coast property), saw possibilities in Hog Island...