Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Secretariat of the National Student Merger Committee are: John S. MacCauley, Notre Dame '41, Victor J. Hillery, Brown '41, and Adam Yarmolinsky '43. The headquarters of the Committee are the 316 Fifth Avenue, New York City...
Spain's Dictator Franco showed a victor's magnanimity to the Vatican last week. He let lean, hollow-eyed Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, Archbishop of Tarragona-who incurred his enmity by staying neutral during the civil war-return to Spain after five years' exile...
...display in Los Angeles last week was one of a half dozen air-raid shelters built by a Glendale contractor named Victor J. Nelson. The Nelson shelter was an above-ground type, attracted gapers, no buyers. But Nelson has plans for underground shelters, too, which the Defense Council has tentatively approved. Meanwhile in Hollywood Cinemactress Deanna Durbin is already building a house with a bombproof shelter. Miss Durbin said she didn't order it; the architect just put it in of his own accord...
...Wake Up Screaming (20th Century-Fox) is a showcase for the renowned torsos of bountiful Betty Grable and beautiful Victor Mature. A melodramiable mystery, well-directed, nicely acted, competently atmospherical, it is notable for a complete absence of gunplay and for a slick performance by enormous (290-lb). Laird Cregar, as the psychopathic head of a homicide squad...
...last week none of these was so pleased as stocky, razor-brained Victor Emmanuel, 42, president of Aviation Corp. which owns 71% of Vultee common stock. The many subsidiaries of Emmanuel's AVCO already make aircraft engines and propellers; it has big investment in New York Shipbuilding, American Airlines, Pan American Airways; soon AVCO will control Consolidated as well. So that little