Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A highly polished version of one of the decade's chief musical achievements, by the maestro who gave the symphony its U.S. premiere in November 1945. Performance: excellent...
Handel-Beecham: The Great Elopement (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). The latest of five suites culled by Sir Thomas from little-known music of Handel makes a charming period piece for ballet and listeners alike...
Lefty Hansen, victor in two outings this season, will be on the mound for the Yardlings, facing Jack Alexander, veteran Exonian hurler. The starting lineup for today's game has not been changed, although the batting order will be different from Saturday's roster, with Johnny Goldsmith and Hai Moffle restored to the top positions and Johnny Chase and Myles Huntington returning to the seventh and sixth slots...
...habit of judging other men's books seems to dry up a critic's ability to write effective fiction of his own. But not in Victor Sawdon Pritchett's case. The 14 stories in It May Never Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill...
...looked like hats. The freaks of 1946 were gone. Naturally, if a woman wanted to, she could still manage to get loaded down with a bowlful of fruit or a portable flower garden. But most husbands could see their wives in a Walter Florell lace halo or a Sally Victor straw without reaching for something to swat it with. Straws (from the Far East, Milan, Panama) were back in quantity, and popular...