On 16/28 October 1893, Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique, in Saint Petersburg. Nine days later, on 6 November, Tchaikovsky died there, aged 53.
You know someone had to send those reporters out on their mission: editor speaks tersely into phone. “This looks like a job for SALISBURY!” Spidy and Poteet, blue with periodic cramps and protesting all the way, are rushed off to Saigon; Lippmann goes to Columbia to get the other side of the picture and the Times Literary Supplement comes out with a double issue. Iron Myke crawls back under the City Desk with the Dean of Women; Drew Pearson reveals that Linda is a dyke and her paramour is a Homuncula grown illicitly with cuttings stolen from Gov. Lurleen’s personal physician.
Cameras flash, “Hold it Mr. LeClair–that’s right, now smile. Tell me, would you say that all the publicity which your daughter has been receiving has had any adverse effect? In what way… hold it!” Flash bulbs pop again.