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...racquetmen had no trouble handling Tufts, as eight of nine players breezed to either 3-0 or 3-1 victories. The one close match was played at number two, where Tuft's Wes Baker took David Boyum to the limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raquetmen Topple Tufts | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley Peters, known as Wes, Taliesin West's chief architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities the Saga of Stalin's Little Sparrow | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...love with the distinguished-looking, 6-ft. 4-in. Peters, then 57. Soon Svetlana was pressing for an early wedding, and less than three weeks after her arrival in Arizona, she and Peters were married. Mrs. Wright was heard to exult, "Now I can say again, 'Svetlana and Wes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities the Saga of Stalin's Little Sparrow | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Svetlana's hostility was viewed a shade differently by her new brother-in- law, S.I. Hayakawa, who is married to Wes Peters' sister. "She and Mrs. Wright were like two empresses in the same empire," the semanticist and former U.S. Senator recollects. Overpowered, Svetlana tried to persuade Peters to leave Taliesin West, where he had worked since 1932 as Wright's disciple and chosen successor. Peters temporized, and after 20 months of marriage, Svetlana stormed out, cursing Mrs. Wright and all that she represented with a wrath that recalled Stalin's. Taliesin West, "with all its horrible modern architecture," Svetlana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities the Saga of Stalin's Little Sparrow | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...everyday dealings Svetlana behaved more reasonably, frequently disarming new acquaintances with a charm that was undeniably genuine. She touched people by the evident sincerity of her religious belief. "She could be warm, lovely and simple," says Margedant Hayakawa, Wes Peters' sister, who remained a supportive friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities the Saga of Stalin's Little Sparrow | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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