January is often a slow news month. Not so in 1950. In January 1950, nearly 90,000 of the nation's coal miners went on strike or reduced work hours, causing shortages of coal supplies in many ...

NICOLAS NABOKOV, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1903, is the talented son of a family which was known for its liberalism under the lost of the Tsars, His study of music, begun at an earls’ age, was ...