Word: vic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the excitement along Broadway had been mounting. At the tail end of a lively but not very lustrous season there loomed one of the brightest theatrical events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale...
...glittering first-night audience that had paid $12 a seat-in some cases less to see than to be seen- trooped back, virtually en masse, the next night. Then it had the very rare opportunity of witnessing Henry IV, Part II- last produced on Broadway in 1867. The Old Vic had clearly started off with its heaviest artillery.† But when the boom and smoke had subsided, there was no doubt that it had won the engagement...
Died. Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey, 72, Ohio's sphinxlike former Democratic Governor (1923-29) and U.S. Senator (1935-41), who made a fetish of honesty, political capital of silence; of a rare, tropical blood disease; in Columbus, Ohio...
Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, ex-bandleader who once campaigned wrapped in a sheet with a goat at his side (TIME, March 18), got the voters' comments on his latter-day habiliments of dullness and dignity. Dull & dignified William F. Devin, incumbent, beat Vic's striped pants off-in an election to decide which would be Seattle's next Mayor. The score: Devin, 70,498; Vic...
...supreme effort he managed to be duller and more dignified than the mayor. Seattle voters, confronted almost for the first time with two polite candidates, hardly knew where to turn. As for Vic Meyers, he hadn't looked as happy in years...