Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis...
...Pittsburgh 7, Houston...
...when contests are about as important to pianists as the tournament circuit to a tennis player, Pittsburgh's Byron Janis is a startling exception: he has never won or even entered a contest. At 34, Janis is getting along smartly without the benefit of contest trophies-as he reminded audiences again last week when he performed in Moscow hard on the heels of the Tchaikovsky Competition...
...Light was a big Irishman who lived in a mining town outside Pittsburgh and sold moonshine during the Depression for 20 a full shot no color and 25? colored yellow. The law never got him. but he turned from a laughing, joyful man into a bitter man when a malignant tumor grew in his knee. That was not what actually killed him. He was hit by lightning and three men carried him home dead. The bank foreclosed on his widow a few months later, and she had to move to a Government housing project in Pittsburgh...
Lester Goran writes about the widow Light, gossiping as if he were sitting on a sidewalk bench, killing time on a summer night. As in his fine first novel. The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, Goran recreates slumside Pittsburgh with superbly detailed tessellations of anecdote. An itchy slut of a woman up on the third floor sings Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with her soldier friends and kicks them all out just before her husband gets back from his war-worker job at midnight. Mrs. Bagley from the other side of the garbage court passes the word that...