Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...Manhattan, ski-nosed Comedienne Bea Lillie ended her day at RCA Victor's big, bare Studio 2 just two minutes before midnight. She did her own offbeat version of Atlanta, a number from Inside U.S.A., a musical show that won't hit Broadway until March...
Lana Turner, 27, has been married to Band Leader Artie Shaw and Actor Stephen Crane (married, annulled, remarried, divorced-one child). She had also been linked, as the columnists say, with Turhan Bey, George Huntington Hartford Jr., Victor Mature, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and-just before she met Topping-a Yale man named Talbot...
...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
...early season laurels, four other teams are close behind. After dropping a poorly played opener to Adams House, the Lowell Bellboys suddenly caught fire and razed their next two opponents. Eliot, Dudley, and Dunster faltered after successful debuts, but finished winning two and losing one. Adams was victor only in its first game, but Leverett has failed to win in three games...