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...self-styled Manhattan "versifier" who unabashedly wrote for loot, not laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind...
Hard Choice. Mandelstam could have had an easy life if he had wanted one. Born in 1891, he was the only son of a wealthy Jewish merchant. His father treated him to a grand tour of Western Europe before sending him to the University of St. Petersburg and offered young Osip a safe future in the leather business. But Osip opted for the dangerous life of letters, and his father cut him off without a ruble. Nothing daunted, Osip moved in with the Acmeists, a stubborn little literary sect centered in St. Petersburg and set up in opposition...
LENINGRAD by Nigel Gosling. 252 pages. Dutton. $25. Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, lies on the bleak landscape of Communist Russia like an ornate brooch, a city unexpectedly and astonishingly brilliant with its canals and palaces and blue-and-white cathedrals and marble statues and gilded domes glinting in the wintry sun. Author Gosling, art critic of London's Observer, and Photographer Colin Jones have successfully limned the luminous city built by that savage giant, Peter the Great (1672-1725), along the soggy shores of the Neva. It became the seat of the czars and of Russian culture; Pushkin...
...Statehouse (including the two-year unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which was set up by the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide inter-racial conciliation; he is now U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce. According to the St. Petersburg Times's statewide poll of urban residents, LeRoy Collins today would get 59% of the vote v. 21% for Slick Burns, with 20% undecided. Collins was clearly interested. Having sniffed the political air since election day, he non-announced last week: "If I run for this...
...that it "tended to outrage public opinion or decency." Since CBS insists that its drama was mainly based on Youssoupoff's own books, the Manhattan jury must now decide whether the TV film strayed too far from those earlier histories of what happened 49 years ago in St. Petersburg...