Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Wanderer still at loose in Germany could last week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
...Russia was difficult and dangerous. Today it has become almost impossible, an attempt tantamount to suicide. Barbed and electrically charged wire, searchlight-equipped watch towers. 24-hour frontier patrols aided by bloodhounds and police dogs guard every mile of border. Therefore, excitement was great in Latvia last week when Victor Konarski, onetime Soviet port chief at Leningrad, made good his escape to Riga...
Class of 1939: Jerome Le R. Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Josef Alexander Brighton; Bernard Barber, Cambridge: Robert H. Goldman, Lowell; Robert E. Lane, New York; Victor A. Lewinson, New York; James R. Muenger, Toledo. Ohio; Leonard K. Nash, New York; Sidney D. Ross, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein, Malden; Bernard J. Siegel, Superior, Wisconsin; and William Q. Wolfson, Brooklyn...
...Victor over the ten Harvard Undergraduate "Indians" who staged an "attack" early in its journey, the Caravan has evidently met its match in the elements. Scheduled to arrive in Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, it has failed to reply to all telegraphic and telephone messages...
...Decca had two records out: the Andrews Sisters', which had already sold 10,000 copies, and Glen Gray's. Brunswick had released a Russ Morgan version, and at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre the crowd called for four encores the first time Morgan played it. Victor had Guy Lombardo's recording of the song ready this week in time to be put on sale with the sheet music. First day's sheet sale (7,000) indicated that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön might be as sensational as The Music Goes 'Round and Around...