Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After release from RCA Victor, Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, will lead the Band in a new recording next spring. Fiedler also will conduct part of the annual spring concert, scheduled for March...
Both records are worth anyone's five dollars, and both are a complete success for the Glee Club and the Choral Society. But the HGC-RCS is not heard to best advantage here, as they have been in their Berlioz recordings for Victor. They would do well to remove themselves from the indelicate clutches of Cambridge Records Inc., posthaste...
...Victor. No one claims a victory, least of all the Negro spokesman, Charles G. Gomillion, 57, assistant professor of sociology and dean of students at influential Tuskegee Institute. "Believe it or not, we love Tuskegee. It's our home. That's why we asked to be taken back. For years we've tried to help build a better Tuskegee, one in which we share in the privileges as well as the responsibilities. But Negroes don't feel they can retain their self-respect by surrendering. We do not live by bread alone...
What Jasper Haynes had not dreamed was that the presentation, arranged months ago, would fall in a week when gifts in government had Washington newsmen in a happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
...Presley disk hit second place on Billboard's authoritative top-tunes listing in its second week on the chart, and by last week Victor claimed to have shipped 2,000,000 copies (total Presley sales of single disks so far: a staggering 28 million). The movie-bred lyrics of Jailhouse Rock (see CINEMA) suggests a powerful argument for penal reform, but no clues to the record's whopping success...