Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, ex-bandleader who once campaigned wrapped in a sheet with a goat at his side (TIME, March 18), got the voters' comments on his latter-day habiliments of dullness and dignity. Dull & dignified William F. Devin, incumbent, beat Vic's striped pants off-in an election to decide which would be Seattle's next Mayor. The score: Devin...
...Love in the Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad...
Roxas would not claim that he is a pro-American today if the Japs were still in the Philippines. Renegades like Roxas who collaborated with the Japs now proclaim they were pro-Americans. As Orientals they worship the victor...
Fourteen years ago Seattle's Victor Aloysius Meyers suspected that he was about to be elected mayor. He felt a passionate urge to emit a few genteel and stately phrases. At the time, he was costumed in a sheet and was leading a goat; he thought he'd better change back into store clothes before he made his statement...
...Victor Meyers' sudden resolution horrified a Seattle Times reporter named Doug Welch. Reason: the Times was running Vic for mayor to express its jaundiced opinion of the serious candidates, and it was Welch's chore to keep him funny. Welch gave Vic a card to hand to toastmasters. The card read...