Enthusiasm for Russia Describes Lutes Flute Tour
Carl Lytes of Carbondale, a lecturer at Southern Illinois University, traveled two months with the Robert Shaw Chorale in Russia. He praised Russian enthusiasm for music, noted easing post Stalin, and described friendly receptions, strong religious music reception, and an encore request for Bach.
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Carl Lytes
Russia
Robert Shaw Chorale
Lytes
Christopher
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
New York
Lutes
America
Enby
Anna Neufeld
Stalin
Te Shaw
Shaw
Shaw Group
Soviet Union
United States
Bolshoi Ballet
New York City Ballet
Robert Shaw
OK Nikita Where Are The Cigars
Carl Lutes reports from a Russia trip that Cuban tobacco could not be bought there and Russians apparently do not smoke cigars. He notes a ban on Cuban import affects supply and questions where Cuban cigar tobacco is heading.
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New York
Lutes
Carl Lutes
Russia
Oldtimers Recall Icy Winters of Youth in County Tales
Aging residents recount brutal winters from 1917 18 and 1940 35 days below zero while foretelling if modern frigid spells compare. William Weber keeps weather ledgers since 1911 noting extra deep snow and frost days as Carbondale Murphysboro Herrin Marion residents remember.
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Windr
William Weber
Hanson St
Murphysboro
Weber
M. B. O'Hara
Rt 1
Carebondale
North Illinois Avenue
O'Hara
Tom White
16Th St
Herrin
Marion
Frisco
California
First National Bank
Carbondale
Thompson Lake
Menard Penitentiary
White
Hugens
Aoreer
Carbondale Couple Reunite Through War Years to Wed
Walter W. Taylor of Southern Illinois University anthropology wed Nancy Thompson Bergh in Santa Fe New Mexico after years of crossing paths during World War II service and prior marriages. The couple, both antiques and Spanish culture enthusiasts, plan to split time between Santa Fe and Carbondale with a blended family of six children.
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Ben Gelman
Carbondale
Walter W. Taylor
Southern Illinois University
Nancy Thompson Bergh
Santa Fe
N. M
Boston
Taylor
Harvard
Radcliffe
Nancy Thompson
United States
Offices of Strategic Services
U. S
North Africa
France
Caserta
Italy
Lyda Fischer
Lisher
Tor
United Nations
Sweden
Cornelia
Gleed Thompson
Southwest
Taylors
Tina
Karin
Ann
Gordon
Peter
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SIU
Krokadil
Nikita
E. T. Hoogens
Sven-Erik Bergh
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