Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more accurate, in an easier role, is Victor Varconi. He thickened his eye brows, blended the mannerisms of a body guard and a devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances are not quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom...
Since Dr. Lambert's retirement in 1939. Dr. Victor William Tighe McGusty, director of Fiji's medical services, has had complete charge of the school. Rockefeller support, no longer needed, has been withdrawn. The regular teachers are British-paid Colonial Medical Service doctors...
...cruisers were under the command of British Rear Admiral Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley, but, Admiral King carefully points out, Crutchley was not present because he was attending a conference aboard the transport flagship of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner...
...James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime...
...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...