Word: vitalis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schubert: Symphony #2; Vitali; Chaconne for violin and figured bass; Verdi: Requiem; Bartok: Quartet #1; Borodin: Symphony #2; Boccherini: Trio...
...Line? Abel did not work alone. Also in the plot, as the grand jury indictment told the story, were his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Reino Hayhanen (cover name: "Vic"), and three others-Vitali G. Pavlov, onetime Soviet embassy official in Ottawa; ex-United Nations employee Mikhail Svirin; Aleksandr Mikhailovich Korotkov. For nine years Colonel Abel and his fellow spies played a deadly serious melodrama. They met at prearranged rendezvous, e.g., Manhattan's Tavern-on-the Green and a Newark railroad station, and exchanged or left messages and microfilmed documents, tapped in on telephone lines to make untraceable calls. They banked...
Less than a week later, Club President Doyle received a phone call from West Springfield, Mass. Charles Helmar, a carpet factory worker and Springfield public links champion, wanted to explain that he had been Roberts' partner in the Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...
Armstrong, at any rate, organized a syndicate (of which he owned 60%) and bought the Roberts-Vitali team for $1,128.30. Later, he put the two strangers up for the night, paid their entrance fee, lent them a Lincoln convertible, helped them out with a little pocket money, and was even kind enough to take care of their caddie fees. They responded by winning the tournament with net scores of 57 and 58, a total of 27 under...
...Gentlemen. Deepdale's President M. Borland Doyle, a Manhattan advertising executive, who even in his best days never shot better than 94, began to wonder about such uncommonly fine scores handed in by such high-handicap players. He checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...