Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nobody was more surprised at this discovery than Happy himself. The main business of the club owners' meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week was supposed to be 1) abolition of the impractical "bonus rule," which had loaded some clubs with overpriced players,* and 2) the re-election of Commissioner Chandler to his $65,000-a-year job. Under the rules, Happy needed twelve votes out of a total 16, and with no candidate running against him he didn't see how he could lose...
...Telephone. Happy was at dinner in St. Petersburg when he got the bad news: the club owners, splitting 8-8, had failed to re-elect him. Happy charged to a telephone and demanded another ballot, but when it was taken he still stood three votes short of reelection...
...Liszt was the father of keyboard theatrics. Before his time, pianists usually played facing the orchestra with their backs to the audience or vice versa. Liszt turned the piano sideways to reveal his profile. One of his acts: in his debut in St. Petersburg, one chronicler reports, Liszt, "covered with clanking orders . . . mounted the platform, and, pulling his dogskin gloves from his shapely white hands, tossed them carelessly on the floor...
Until his early 20s, Andre Kostelanetz never allowed a Tin Pan Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless...
...Punjab was split when India was partitioned in 1947 and the ancient Punjab Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...