Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borkman (Victor Jory) had had a vast, almost visionary, lust for power; and to get it, he gave up love. Yet he failed, for all that-he overreached himself, went to prison, embittered his success-worshiping wife, emerged a pariah who for eight years shut himself up, futilely nursing his grandiose dream. When his wife's sister-the woman he loved and should have married-comes, herself dying, to reproach yet try to reshape him, she is too late. Leaving his house with her, Borkman dies of "the cold...
Outpost of Empire. Victor, Joseph (his twin) and Bernard Ridder thereby added a new outpost to a little-known, $15,000,000 empire that already stretched from coast to coast. Its founder was astute Herman Ridder, who started the Catholic News 60 years ago, bought Manhattan's Staats-Zeitung in 1890 and died in 1915, leaving to his sons the delicate job of steering a German-language paper through the storms of anti-German feeling in World...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...
Mozart: Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...