Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven European laureates who have arrived in the U.S. in recent years are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigrid Undset, Thomas Mann (literature); Sir Norman Angell (peace); Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye (chemistry); Otto Meyerhof, Otto Loewi (physiology and medicine); Albert Einstein, James Franck, Victor Franz Hess, Enrico Fermi (physics...
...Victor Hugo, by Matthew Josephson ($3-50), filled - with 514 eminently readable pages-a gaping hole in U.S. biographical writing...
Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the Japanese in Mongolia, is First Vice Commissar for Defense and second only to Commissar Joseph Stalin in U.S.S.R. military councils...
Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Less heady than Toscanini's for Victor, Walter's 8th is as mellow as well-aged Viennese slivovitz...