Word: victor
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More & more interested, little Author Leyden pattered from the Levant, through the Balkans, to Paris, met many interesting people in the course of his researches. In Geneva there was cold, gracious Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life...
These dicta helped win for their author a $1,000 prize offered by the Atlantic Monthly for an article on freedom of the press. Victor over nearly 700 competitors, mostly working newsmen, the author is Robert Lasch, 37, Rhodes Scholar and Nieman Fellow, now one of four editorial writers for Marshall Field's left-wing Chicago Sun. Like most modern social critics, Writer Lasch virtually absolves "the people" of moral responsibility for social ills, assigns that responsibility almost exclusively to the leaders. At times his essay suggests a private's-eye view of the generals. But every experienced...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
PETER DOMANIG - Victor White - Bobbs-Merrill...
These two massive novels were launched with a publicity salute of all but invasion intensity. William Cameron's The Day is Coming (573 pages about working-class life in England from 1887 to 1939) was blurbed as "the sort of novel Dickens might have written." Victor White's Peter Domanig (704 pages about working-class life in Vienna from 1905 to 1920) was called "one of the classics of aoth Century literature." All such extravagances aside, one fact was plain: both novels were solidly based on the bitter, intense, personal histories of their respective authors...