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...Tampa, Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Fla., sit-ins stirred Governor LeRoy Collins to brand the demonstrations "dangerous and illegal" under state...
...Petersburg, Fla., caught by police after trying to escape from the state road prison camp, Prison Cook Fred Mayo told the judge: "I didn't like the food...
...Dauberval and regarded as the father of comic ballet-Innovator Ashton was almost completely on his own. The only guide he had to the original work was the hazy memory of an oldtime (75) ballerina, Russian-born Tamara Karsavina, who danced the role of Lise in czarist St. Petersburg...
Scent of Freedom. In St. Petersburg, Fla., police finally caught up with Escaped Convicts Elmer Duke and Daniel McKenzie, who had taken the prison bloodhound with them when they fled...
...make bulbs, he was no good at selling them. In 1895 the company was up for sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began exporting. In 1898 Anton himself wired home from St. Petersburg the biggest order ever placed: 50,000 bulbs for the Czar's Winter Palace. Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton...