Word: petroff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians printed their news as they made it, setting type in the fields (see cut, p. 20). One Soviet newsman, Eugene Petroff, who also serves the North American Newspaper Alliance, reported that in autumnal forests and still summery fields the Russians were "fiercely beating the Germans on a firm, established front...
...Newsman Petroff told of one Captain Voitsekovsky, who seemed sure to become Russian legend. Captain Voitsekovsky was using a church tower as an advanced observation post and had there rigged up a field telephone. Suddenly he was surprised by a German tank attack. The Captain phoned the nearest Russian artillery batteries: "Fire at me. In the church bell tower. The square is full of German tanks. Farewell, comrades!" It was the end of Captain Voitsekovsky...
...about, no one knew. Since there were no program notes, it made for good guessing as well as good watching. It seemed to have bugs, or birds, or airplanes in it, and it definitely had a shapely leopard. Safe guess: the spangly men in black (Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff) were up to no good with the woman in black (dark, pretty Tamara Toumanova...