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...Soviet Union this week, the Russians have to look back a century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous...
...spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn, tear through a barbed-wire fence and flip over twice. He was taken to a St. Petersburg hospital with a concussion, badly lacerated eye and assorted broken bones...
...Gold Coast tourist spas, where any company can attract employee talent with the free fringe benefits of sun and surf. Dade County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts plant. Sperry Rand and Electronic Communications, Inc. (aeronautical...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater; Westminster, 3 LPs). Pushkin's sentimental tale of a St. Petersburg blade and his Unbeloved, given a skilled and rousing reading by Russia's leading opera group. The score displays Tchaikovsky at the top of his meltingly melancholy form. Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya is particularly fine as the lofty-souled heroine whose real-life prototype became Tchaikovsky's wife in a marriage that almost drove him to suicide...
...life, roly-poly Boris Mihailovich Morros, 62, has been a suave Slav charmer with a St. Petersburg touch to his accent. As he tells it, when he was 16 and already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony, the charmed Rasputin pressed gifts upon him. At 42, as a Hollywood musical director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last...