Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...
...since last year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club...
...Victor and the Living Buddha. Emily's Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said...
Victorious in three and a half out of five games, the Harvard Chess Club defeated Wells Institute in the Lowell Dining Hall last Friday night. Feb Grobman, Henry H. Nattens '47, and Victor Kimel '46, won their games, Marshall N. Rosenbluth of the V-12 lost his, and George B. McCutcheon '48 came out in a draw...
...quality of the new records will be higher than ever, thanks to the end of the wartime shellac shortage. But anything like a return to 1942 production figures-when Victor alone produced 59,000,000 records-is out of the world for the duration. Even omnipotent Boss Petrillo could not solve the manpower shortage...