Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real shock came not from Washington but from London: in response to U.S. urging, the British reluctantly recalled their Ambassador, Sir David Victor Kelly. Argentine nationalists have long believed that Britain was their firm, beef-eating friend, even if the U.S. was not. Ambassador Kelly's recall, threatening joint action by Britain and the U.S., shook this happy notion...
...reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et ante} to enter the popular field...
Meanwhile the production of classical symphonic records continues in a slow but steady trickle. The latest releases: Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (Rochester Philharmonic, Jose Iturbi conducting; Victor; 6 sides). A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings. Performance: excellent...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
Vienna-born (1902) Victor White is the son of an Austrian mother and a British engineer. When his father died, little Victor's mother remarried, moved to the U.S. leaving Victor behind. He was brought up by relatives in Vienna and Switzerland, later came...