Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women of Heidelberg wrote a letter to General Eisenhower: "You wanted to enter Heidelberg as victor, and all you found were people with smiling faces and open arms. . . . We despise the hypocritical holier-than-thou attitude of the National Socialists and did not flee with them. At the same time we do not beg your favor. . . . Give us peace, based on wisdom, and you will receive our admiration...
This week Victor Alessandro, 29, is making good his 24-year-old threat. From the podium of Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium he will guest-conduct the Minneapolis Symphony. And the experience will not be particularly novel. In the past six years, small, stocky Conductor Alessandro has led his own Oklahoma...
Self-assured Victor Alessandro became a conductor by the practical process of building up an orchestra of his own. When he finished studying in Rome and Salzburg (1938), he shrewdly left Eastern music centers, to return to the Southwest where there is more musical room-at-the-top. He took over the struggling, WPA-financed Oklahoma State Symphony, gave its discouraged musicians new enthusiasm. The big oil men who had sneered at the WPA's "Roosevelt fiddlers" liked Alessandro's orchestra and kept it going when the Federal funds stopped. This year they will raise...
...Bernard M. Baruch, 74, sat on a park bench one day last week -this time in London. He was not, as he usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted...
Divorced. Sarah Churchill, 30, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, onetime vaudevillian, her father's companion at Casablanca and Yalta; by Vic Oliver, 46, U.S.-naturalized comedian, ex-Austrian baron (Victor Samek); after eight years of marriage (no children); in London...