Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Palo Alto to marry Lou Henry. They spent their honeymoon on a ship to China, en route to his new job as director of China's mines. Thereafter, for twelve years, Lou Henry Hoover made homes all over the world-Peking, Tientsin, Tokyo, Mandalay, Australia, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Paris, London. By the time her first son, Herbert Jr., was three years old he had been around the world three times...
...Labor, feeling that it had been unfairly singled out, reared back defensively. The St. Petersburg, Fla. Times kicked over the traces and announced that the speaker was no less a person than General George Marshall, a statement which was broadcast by the United Press and by radio...
Balloon Wanted. For 18 years the temperamental Baron has been a luxurious virtuoso among fashion photographers in the U.S. George Hoyningen-Huene was born in imperial St. Petersburg, the son of a Baltic nobleman and an American woman from Detroit. The Hoyningen-Huene family title dates from the 12th Century. During the Russian Revolution young Huene studied in England. After the Armistice he joined the British Army and served in South Russia...
George Balanchine (real name Georgei Melitonovitch Balinchinvadze), St. Petersburg-born alumnus of the Russian Imperial Ballet and the late great Diaghilev troupe, husband of Ballerina Vera Zorina. He has recently divided his time between
With good purses ($200 to $5,000) Wonderland attracts the fastest U.S. racing dogs. Fastest is Never Roll, a four-year-old owned by H. B. Diamond of St. Petersburg, Fla. Last summer at Wonderland, Never Roll won 17 of 24 races, broke four world's records at distances from 330 to 770 yards. Boston's dog fans expect even greater things of Never Roll this year. A few weeks ago, during a schooling race, he ran 100 yards in 5.275 seconds. World's record...