Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Moore, who recently tried to give his dog a romp and got fined for unleashing it in Manhattan's Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
...Winston Churchill likes cigars. . . . Get Gandhi to tell you what he said to Nehru. . . . What Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last night? . . . Shepheard's Hotel has an 'a' in it. . . . Prices have risen since the war. . . . Inflation the cause, insiders say. . . . Victor Mature and Margaret O'Brien eating ice-cream cones together. . . . Democrats worried over the coming elections...
...Most unforeseen hit: Victor Herbert's 40-year-old Red Mill...
Married. Captain the Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, 28, first cousin of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, former aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid...
More dangerous than the atom itself is the idea that a quick atomic blitz would defeat any great nation. No possible atomic aggressor would be able to think that if other great nations are automatically prepared. In mutual atomic war, even the "victor" will suffer "destruction incomparably greater than that suffered by any defeated nation in history. . . . Under those circumstances no victory, even if guaranteed in advance-which it never is-would be worth the price...