Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring a compromise proposal to the rebels, it was Communist Mora who furnished him protection...
Latinos applauded, but only Peru's Victor Andrés Belaunde and two Nicaraguans shook the Secretary's hand. Everybody was a little stunned at Marshall's plain no on the question of U.S. economic aid. Said a Brazilian next morning: "For me, the conference ended yesterday...
Fumble. The strong U.S. delegation, headed by William B. Benton, got off to a weak start. It introduced a resolution calling for "the fullest possible" freedom for foreign correspondents to go wherever they wanted. Polish Delegate Victor Grosz then made an embarrassing point: in the past two years 250 American correspondents had been admitted to his country, on as little as two days' notice. But, he said, one Polish journalist had been waiting since Jan. 27 for a U.S. visa...
Handel: Messiah (Elsie Suddaby, soprano; Marjorie Thomas, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Trevor Anthony, bass; Luton Choral Society and Special Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 42 sides). Sir Thomas has here equaled-and the recording has surpassed-his great performance of the Messiah recorded over 15 years...
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat; Octet for Wind Instruments (Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Stravinsky's seldom-heard 1918 setting of the old Russian tale of a soldier, his violin and the devil ranks among his masterpieces. L'Histoire sounds almost like a full orchestra; actually only seven instruments are used, but used for all they're worth. Recording: excellent...