Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three times a week. Most of his day is taken up with conferences with the great layer of civilian and war-agency administrators below him; there are telephone conversations with Senators and Representatives, reading of reports and memorandums, plotting of strategy with his seasoned idea man, Benjamin Victor Cohen. (Except for idealistic Ben Cohen, Jimmy Byrnes's staff consists of but three others: Donald Russell, his onetime law partner in Spartanburg, ex-Washington Reporter Samuel Lubell, and corpulent Office Secretary Edward Prichard.) At 7 o'clock the White House car takes Jimmy Byrnes home for dinner; usually...
...ideas on dealings with Germany. "Our aim," he said, "is not to destroy all armed force in Germany, because any intelligent man will understand that this is as impossible in the case of Germany as in the case of Russia. It would be unreasonable on the part of the victor to do so. To destroy Hitler's army is possible and necessary...
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade (San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor; 9 sides). The Pacific crew delivers an especially spicy version of this Oriental tale...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting, with Artur Schnabel; Victor; 8 sides). Famed Beethoven Specialist Schnabel gives one of Beethoven's greatest concertos a thorough workout. As a teammate, the late Frederick Stock is somewhat heavy-footed. Result: though distinguished, it still leaves the prize to Schnabel's older Victor recording with the London Philharmonic, or to Pianist Walter Gieseking and the Saxon State Orchestra (Columbia...
Said Chicago Daily News Correspondent Victor Gordon Lennox in a Dec. 5 dispatch from London: "Already one correspondent has returned to London ahead of two messages he dispatched before leaving...