Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spicy Little Column. Igor's distant alliance with nobility, which he makes much of, comes from being grandson of Count Arthur Cassini, once the Tsar's Ambassador to the U.S. Igor was born in Sevastopol, grew up (after the revolution) in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy. At 21 he came to the U.S. to coach tennis at the University of Georgia, went back to get his brother, Oleg, a nubile young man. Oleg's marriages, to date: with Million-heiress Merry Fahrney, Cinemactress Gene Tierney. Igor covered sports and read proof for an Italian paper in New York, wrote...
From an average 40,000 circulation in its first, precarious years (when it led the Tsar's police an underground chase), Pravda grew to 3,000,000 before World War II. Lately the print order has been around 2,000,000 (about the same as the biggest seller in the U.S., the nationalist tabloid New York Daily News), could easily rise to three times that-if Pravda could only get more paper. Price: 20 kopecks (about...
After dinner Sergeant Eugene List of the U.S. Army preceded Truman at the piano. List's father was the best dancer in his part of Russia; people miles away asked him to dance at weddings and christenings. But he never got to dance for a tsar...
...manifesto mentions only Yukio Ozaki. ... He is called the 'greatest liberal statesman.' " Ozaki, now about 90, is widely known in Japan as an independent in politics. He has been a lifelong advocate of Japanese collaboration with Russia. He supported this idea when Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas, continued to support it after the Bolsheviks came to power. In the 1942 Japanese elections he was so popular that the Government did not dare to void his candidacy, and the Supreme Court acquitted him of lèse majest...
...town of Eindhoven. Gerard, a few months short of bankruptcy, urged his brother Anton to try to sell Philips bulbs. Anton agreed, traveled gaslighted Europe, sold bulbs far beyond the plant's capacity to produce (his greatest coup was a 50,000-bulb-a-year order for the Tsar's Winter Palace). By 1912, the company was big enough to be incorporated (one share was worth 1,000 guilders...