Word: vic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's Trader Vic's restaurant was about to shut down for the night when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night-and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn...
...DEAN MARTIN SUMMER SHOW WITH YOUR HOST VIC DAMONE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Vic Damone and Carol Lawrence substitute for Dean Martin, welcoming George Jessel and Don Cherry as the first of the summer variety-show guests...
...Vic, he's a Big Man. There is nothing mocking about the word as it is used in the North End. The King of Watermelon, who wholesales the melons to all New England, is also a big man. Saints are bigger...
...VIC does not stir for the stranger. He has enough to treat his friends and, more important, one doesn't go scuttling all over the room every time the door opens. After a time he is by the stranger's side, not questioning, waiting to be informed. He is informed, and whatever the stranger proclaims himself to be will be magnified in the retelling, for even Vic gains by association with important...
...Vic walks away to play a rack and the circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk...