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Word: victor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nebraska race between Republican cumbent Victor Anderson and Democrat Ralph Brooks still in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ELECTION SCORECARD | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...when Novelist Frederic Wakeman sent Adman Victor Norman into the high-salary altitudes of The Hucksters, he let his man enjoy the big, bad money for a while, then shot him down in a barrage of hack-ack. But the new heroes do not come to bad ends. They are drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drumbeatniks | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...best acting jobs in that of Whitfield Connor playing Victor Milgrim, the Mephistophelean movie producer. Jason Robards Sr. gives an equally moving performance as Hallidy's benevolent publisher. This is the senior Robards' first appearance on the stage in nineteen years. The rest of the supporting roles are adequately handled, as is David Pressman's direction. The multi-purpose sets of Ben Edwards deserve special attention...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Disenchanted | 11/5/1958 | See Source »

...soldier: he says what he means and he means what he says. He could not have been any different if he had tried. Like many a famous soldier, he lost his early engagements: "My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor." Her approach to the problem posed by Bernard Law Montgomery was simple: "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." Field-Marshal Rommel did not find matters so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monty Remembers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Yutang stopped off in Hong Kong, where the philosopher-novelist (The Importance of Living, Moment in Peking) told newsmen that "unless we have the courage to face Communism and change from the defensive to the offensive, there's nothing to prevent Communism from becoming the world's victor." Then, flying to Formosa, Dr. Lin stood on Chinese soil for the first time in 14 years, said there should be no cut in the size of the garrisons on beleaguered Quemoy and Matsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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