Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Reed Smoot, 79, from 1903 to 1933 Utah's stern, fiscally-minded Senator, co-author of the Smoot-Hawley sky's-the-limit tariff of 1930, longtime Congressional arbiter of Government finance, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Latter-day Saints; at St. Petersburg...
...Victor Chenkin Recital (Columbia: 8 sides; $3.50). U. S. disc debut of a Russian-born singing actor who first appeared in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, has since performed in Paris and Manhattan. In costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
...Viennese to waltz on ice. They formed the Vienna School of Skating, founded the International Style, now universally used by figure skaters. Haines never returned to the U. S., never lived to see his rhythmic technique accepted by his native land. He died in 1879, while traveling from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, was buried in the little Finnish village of Gamla-Karleby. Thirty years later, Manhattan Socialite Irving Brokaw, after winning an international prize in Switzerland, brought the International Style of skating back to the U. S. It spread like wildfire after European stars, like the great Charlotte, staged spectacular...
...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
Last week St. Petersburg staged its eleventh annual shuffleboard tournament. Lined up to compete for the four national titles-Men's and Women's Open (open to anyone), Men's and Women's Closed (closed to anyone under 50)-were nearly 200 crackerjack shufflers. Unlike most national championships, this tournament was marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned...