Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
Payson S. Wild, Jr., professor of Government, called international security the key to atomic bomb control in forum on the subject of "Control in a forum on the subject of "Control of Atomic Energy" at the New Lecture Hall Wednesday night. Victor Weisskopf, professor of Physics at M.I.T., and Miss Lisa Sergio, radio commentator for the Blue Network, also spoke. The forum was sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers (Boston and Cambridge Branch), the Cambridge Association of Scientists, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters...
...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
...manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November...
Elsewhere the talents of Victor Moore, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Lena Home peep through the shuffle and bustle. The whole is well-buttressed, as the Master would surely have it, with the Technicolored verities of the half-naked female form...