Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't much impressed either by Toscanini's recording of the Brahms First for Victor despite its technical brilliance. The last movement was crratic in tempo and over-sentimentalized, and throughout there was too much theatre and too little attention to the continuity of the music. Victory seems to be working the Toscanini legend for more than it is worth at the expense of their own standards. When he is good, as in the Victory "Gotterdacmmerung" recordings, he is superb, but he is getting old and of late his performances have lacked evenness...
...swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...
...also face a $10,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison. For the Government intends to make this case the beginning of a drive against some 95 "vermin" publications - just as the Wilson Government's suppression of the left-wing American Socialist and later of Victor Berger's Milwaukee Leader set the pace for suppression of some 400 publications in World...
Olie Ames and Henry Shepley, numbers three and four for Harvard, had tough sledding. Pete Leeb whaled Ames 8 and 6, and Shepley lost 2 and 1 to Bill Danforth. The Brown pair's best ball was 4 and 3 victor over Ames and Shepley...
Keene, Thomas Victor Jr., Captain...