Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sings," an unkind critic has said of Michiko, "but not well. Her fans are there to look, not listen." Michiko's looks have sold 100,000 copies of her first Victor recording (Banana Boat Song, Venezuela) in a single month, and have touched off a deluge of fan letters, mostly from teenagers. Like France's Juliette Greco-whom she strikingly resembles-she has become the darling of the intelligentsia, who have celebrated her in ponderous prose. Says one literary critic: "Her primitive songs match men's desire to escape the confused mechanism of today's living...
Confused and humiliated by their defeat, millions of Japanese for a time accepted the victor's thesis that their warlike past was something to be ashamed of. But today, all over Japan, bamboo swords once again thud on steel helmets...
RECORDS TRADE-IN will be started by RCA Victor. During May company will give $1 credit toward any of its current classical albums in return for trade-in of old album of any make or speed that was bought for $2 or more...
...sentiments were echoes by Victor N. Claman '58, president of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, which has elected a Radcliffe student as secretary...
Claude Rains, as the wary French Prefect of Police, a "poor, corrupt official" who must work with the Gestapo, cannot decide whether French or German grass is greener, and so sits between on a sharp picket fence. As Victor Laslo, Paul Henreid plays a leader of various resistance movements who has eluded the Germans once too often; his acting shows what a man tortured in a concentration camp must endure...