Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since it invaded Australia, the U.S. Davis Cup team looked like a collection of topflight tennis players. Veterans Vic Seixas and Herbie Flam overpowered the Philippine team, 5-0, served notice that they will have little trouble with Belgium on their way to the challenge round...
Hamlet (RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Sir John Gielgud, as a pensive, polished Dane, takes up arms against a sea of troubles with the able help of London's Old Vic Company, which is always impressive, if sometimes too elegant-sounding and static. In contrast to Sir Laurence Olivier's brasher, more youthful performance in 1948, Gielgud's version is resigned, traditional, declamatory; but it emerges as a memorable reading. All in all, from the creepy wind sighings and distant bells on the battlements of Elsinore in the first scene to the swordplay and slaughter of the last...
...Line? Abel did not work alone. Also in the plot, as the grand jury indictment told the story, were his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Reino Hayhanen (cover name: "Vic"), and three others-Vitali G. Pavlov, onetime Soviet embassy official in Ottawa; ex-United Nations employee Mikhail Svirin; Aleksandr Mikhailovich Korotkov. For nine years Colonel Abel and his fellow spies played a deadly serious melodrama. They met at prearranged rendezvous, e.g., Manhattan's Tavern-on-the Green and a Newark railroad station, and exchanged or left messages and microfilmed documents, tapped in on telephone lines to make untraceable calls. They banked...
Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar...
...provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey, Villain Howard and his spectacular doxy Anita would doubtless have been brought to justice several reels sooner...