Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Labor party leaders let out an explosive breath last week. They had squeaked through a parliamentary by-election at Gravesend. Party Boss Herbert Morrison sent the victor a jubilant telegram: "We will open the door, Richard, when you come to the House...
...Varsity "B" recqueteers dropped their opening match yesterday to the Harvard Graduates, 4 to 1. The Crimson line-up was: McKittrick, Foster, Emerson, Mead, and Morris, with Foster the lone victor...
...Died. Victor Lvovich Kilbalchich (pen name: "Victor Serge"), 56, former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers...
Operatic Duets (Jan Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
This was Britain's year for Nobel Prizes in science. Last week the committee of eminent Swedes, which passes out the $40,588 awards, gave the 1947 physics and chemistry prizes to Sir Edward Victor Appleton and Sir Robert Robinson-both big names in science but little known to the U.S. man in the street...