Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia...
...there were still plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration...
...texture to music with a clarity and realism that are startling to owners of average instruments. It is, in fact, perhaps the only set on the market that would completely satisfy a golden ear."* The FORTUNE survey passed over lower-priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant...
...spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...corn-colored stock characters of oldtime. Wild West melodrama are on hand. All of them are nicely preserved. Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better. Victor .Mature, who used to wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...