Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death Is an Honor. There was little repentance, even on the gallows. Said Camp Commandant Major Victor Zoller with a smile, as his hands were tied: "I am not a war criminal . . . neither were the others." Screamed the camp dentist as the rope was fastened: "Lord help me! ... I thought the American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors...
Searching for the answers, a topflight British opinion-sampling organization called Mass-Observation interviewed 500 people in a semi-suburban borough of London. The results, published in a book called Puzzled People (Victor Gollancz, 7s. 6d.), do not add up to a complete cross section of British religious thinking. Nonetheless, Puzzled People makes profitable reading for churchmen, sociologists and trendspotters in the U.S. as well as England. Highlights...
Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor, 33 sides, three albums). A re-issue of a fine performance in which sound and surface suffered slightly in the process; a worthy collector's item. Performance: good...
Susan Reed: Folk Songs and Ballads -Volume II (Victor, 6 sides). More in 20-year-old Susan Reed's artfully simple style. The singing (accompanied by Irish harp or zither) is uneven, but the best of it makes very pleasant listening. The album includes, among others, Danny Boy, Greensleeves (which Shakespeare mentions in The Merry Wives of Windsor) and the plaintive Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair. Performance: good...