Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time Goes By was sung in a Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...
...Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
...knew what this would do to Bob McConnell. But what really titillated Wall Streeters was that Victor Emanuel, who is also an investment banker, might get a chance to underwrite a deal selling Aniline, with its $64,000,000 of assets. This is the juiciest piece of alien property in Leo Crowley's portfolio. The question: Has Crowley finally decided to sell...
...Copilot Victor Bartholomei was the squadron's only casualty. He lost an eye to German shrapnel over Bizerte. (Major John Toomey, one of three successive squadron commanders, was shot down near Naples and probably captured, but that was after he left the 513th...
...total of 14 walks figured heavily against the Crimson in Friday's Sox rout. Among the many pitchers thrown into the fray in a vain attempt to stem the tide of Boson scoring, Jack Farley, victor over BU's Judge the following day; looked most effective...