Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following note was sent by Victor O. Jones '28, Night Editor of the Boston Globe...
...commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...
Curious, Ankara's Yeni Sabah inquired further, learned that Madame Hassanov had been caught reading a forbidden book. The book: Russian Expatriate Victor Kravchenko's terrifying story of life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom...
...beginning to find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions onto wax: Columbia, the Piano Concerto No. 3; Victor, the Violin Concerto. Neither has yet recorded what some admirers believe is the greatest work of them all: the Concerto for Orchestra...
...Among the authors of the report: Harvard's Robert S. Hillyer and Theodore Morrison, Princeton's Donald A. Stauffer, Columbia's Lionel Trilling, Yale's Dean William C. DeVane, Wesleyan's President Victor L. Butterfield, Hunter's President George N. Shuster, Kenyon's President Gordon K. Chalmers...