Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wedgwood Room is Victor Borge (pronounced Borguh) as the "unmelancholy Dane," who arrived in the U.S. two years ago not knowing a word of English. Borge's droll, suave, teasing act, full of casually crazy asides ("T.ie tenor comes in in single file") culminates expertly at the piano...
...Linlithgow, the victor, went Britain's praise for being the first Viceroy to withstand the pressure of a Gandhi fast without budging an inch. It was considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...
...Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were two Poles whom most people had never heard of. Yet the news of their executions in Russia raised an international rumpus last week...
...Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer: Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were already dead...
...much more important factor in determining the victor of tonight's set-to is the fact that the Crimson had to have an off night sometime, and it was just unfortunate that it had to be against Yale...