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Died. Alexandre Georges Pierre (Sacha) Guitry, 72, prolific writer-actor-director-producer of plays and films; after long illness; in Paris. Born in St. Petersburg, where his actor father, Lucien Guitry, was on tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story...
...Continuing an English legal tradition, Virginia still maintains Hustings Courts in Roanoke, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Richmond, which generally have concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts, normally hear criminal cases arising within each city or the area one mile beyond the corporate limits...
Your June 10 "Battle of Midway" article was succinct, important and still personal. Our thanks are also due to those who helped crack the Japanese secret code, thereby initiating an enlightened, successful campaign. WARREN C. WAGENSEIL St. Petersburg...
...ambitious plan to make it an "important and influential paper around the world," said Publisher Thomson, 63, a plump, pink-cheeked, bustling Scottish-descended Toronto native who owns 20 dailies in Canada (almost one-fourth of Canada's English-language dailies) as well as Florida's St. Petersburg Independent (circ. 25,820). This summer he plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become...
From coast to coast the speed of the new giant's growth is staggering. In Pinellas Park, Florida last week, General Electric just opened a multimillion-dollar X-ray plant. At St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Orlando, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator, Sperry-Rand and Glenn L. Martin Co. are planning three more plants and laboratories to produce guided-missile control systems and do advanced research in electronics. New England's electronics expansion has changed the name of Route 128 near Boston to "electronics highway" Massachusetts alone has some 500 electronics plants. And in Los Angeles, where a new electronics plant...