Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, through which Decca revolutionized the popular-record business seven years ago, was almost dead and buried. Columbia put its purple Okeh label into storage for the duration. Victor still clung to its Bluebird name, Decca to its standard blue label, but all three moved their top names (e.g., Victor's Glenn Miller, Columbia's Benny Goodman, Decca's Jimmy Dorsey) up to the 50? platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from...
...Drafted: Victor Mature...
Because of the lack of enough regulation crew shirts for the traditional betting, a brace of the "handle-bar" mustaches will be the price paid to the victor by the vanquished...
...Pocatiere, Quebec, B.S.A. Laval University '33, Field Representative of Department of Fisheries, Ottawa; Arthur D. Bouterse, of Richmond, Va., A.B. Asbury College '28, A.M. University of Chicago '36, Supervisor of Research and Statistics, Department of Welfare of Virginia, 1936-1941, at present a student in the School; Victor H. Bringe of Madison, Wisc., B.A. University of Wisconsin '41, Administrator of Residence Halls, University of Wisconsin; Robert K. Buck, of Arlington, Va., B.S. Iowa State College '36, M.S., ibid., '39, Associate Agricultural Assistant, Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture; Reid M. Denis, of Cambridge, Mass., A.B. George Washington University...
...election meant, more than a change of seats, a change of viewpoint. It was the end of an era. Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered...