Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tuner Baker has been tuning pianos for 40 years-Alaskan pianos for eight. In such inaccessible outposts as Moose Pass, he charges as high as $25 a job. Many of the pianos he tunes are elegant relics of the Gold Rush. At Petersburg he recently ministered to a massive old model that had made music in '98 for Klondike Kate and Diamond Tooth...
...accent is more Boston than any thing else (he was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899, the son of a successful novelist and playwright-grew tip in St. Petersburg-finished school there just before the revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant...
...chunky N.A.L. President George Theodore Baker, 43, the new route looked mighty good. In 1929 he had begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...
...Party Line. Press Day marks the anniversary of the founding of Pravda (Truth) at St. Petersburg in 1912. In 32 years Pravda has become the world's biggest daily, with over 3,000,000 circulation, though in wartime its circulation is being held to about 2,000,000.* Its two Moscow buildings spread over the equivalent of two New York City blocks and contain a clinic, restaurant, theater for press workers. Its 21 rotary presses (mostly U.S.-made) can print 1,000,000 copies an hour. The Pravda plant also produces many a book and other publication, notably Komsomolskaya...
...Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...