Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...VICTOR J. BEISSINGER...
Admission. Next morning the tempest he had so casually stirred up broke on Dalton. Tory M.P. Victor Raikes told Dalton that he would ask a question in the House about the tip to the Star. After a routine Cabinet meeting, Dalton took Attlee aside and admitted his indiscretion. He offered his resignation. That afternoon a much subdued Dalton arose in the House of Commons to answer Raikes's question. "I appreciate that this was a grave indiscretion on my part," he intoned, "for which I offer my deep apologies to the House...
Dinah Shore, said the reports, had just finished eight solid days of recording. The Andrews Sisters, who normally record 24 sides a year, would make nearly that many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...
Beethoven: Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9, Op. 59 (Paganini Quartet; Victor, 3 volumes, 26 sides). The new Paganiril Quartet plays the three famed "Rasoumowsky" quartets with competence but without fire. The first one has been done better by the Roth Quartet, and the other two by the Budapest. Recording: good...
Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet Excerpts (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Berlioz' Romeo & Juliet is the kind of music that in lesser hands can sound merely bombastic; Toscanini gives it the care and excitement it deserves. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...