Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard breaststroke--Won by Higgins (P); second, M. Victor Leventritt, '35; third, Anderson C. Dearing, Jr., '34. Time 2 min. 32 4-5 sec. New Pool Record...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies out of the wreckage. Victor sold a million copies of the Dalhart record. George claimed royalties, estimated at $375,000, which last year a Federal district court awarded...
Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...drawling commentary by Will James, interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into...
...Lowell S. Dillingham '34, back Lt. Chas. D. Palmer, back Goals--Blandon 6, Phillips 3, Palmer 3, Gerry 3, Davis 2, Dillingham 3. Class C HARVARD '37 51ST. BRIGADE Townsend U. Winmill. No. 1. No. 1. Col. Eckfeldt Peter Cable, No. 2 No. 2, Capt. Moore (Capt. Storer) Royall Victor, back back, Capt. Cunningham Goals--Cunningham 3, Winmill 5, Eckfeldt, Moore 3, Storer...