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Dimitri, summering at Yalta, meets Anna, a sad-faced beauty who promenades every day along the quay with her little white spitz, Ralph. Dimitri has a wife, a pince-nezed intellectual, back in Moscow; Anna's husband is a foppish flunky in Saratov. As they become friends and lovers, Anna's unhappiness and self-recrimination grow stronger: Dimitri at length returns to Moscow to face the winter and his wife's domineering. Then, aboard a tram one day, he sees a little white dog go scampering through the snowy streets...
...which boasts an outstanding skipper in Bill Cox, Jr., and two other excellent men, Spencer Kellogg and Ed Greenberg, is nearly everybody's favorite to defeat the Crimson team of Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann and Peter Farrow. A strong contingent of Yalies headed by New England Monotype Champion Bob Spitz could slip by Harvard to gain second, however...
...choice is harrowing. In the dream, Bing hems and haws, but a decision must be made. The three divas' pet dogs advance on him. Zinka's spitz, Nickie, growls; Maria's poodle, Toy, nips at his ankles; and Renata's poodle, New, crouches to jump. "Choose, choose, choose!" sing the divas, to some nightmare melody that sounds like Alban Berg played backwards...
...Institute also released information regarding the death of Alpha I, the first Sputnik's rocket, which should come to earth over the weekend. Dr. Armand Spitz of the Smithsonian staff stated that the "actual death of Alpha should be a spectacular event, a bright flashing streak visible for hundreds of miles...
Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...