Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities in six weeks. At 85, he conducted perhaps the finest performance (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) of his career. When he finally withdrew to his Riverdale home, he still spent long hours in the living room listening to virtually every scrap" he ever recorded (RCA Victor engineers kept begging him to approve more of his performances for release). When he approved of a recorded passage, the right hand stirred in rhythm to the music, then the left hand signaled for expression, finally both arms moved in great sweeping gestures as the old man conducted the invisible orchestra. The dark...
...Ivar. like Aristide. was past thinking and past explaining. At 11 a.m. he had shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
WHRB's application for FM broad-casting privileges has been accepted for filing by the FCC, Victor F. Andrew '57, president of the radio station, revealed yesterday. The petition was submitted by WHRB's lawyers on January...
...Such gestures could not disguise the true nature of what was going on inside the drill hall. The defense was determined to put the Strydom regime itself on trial. "The defense." declared Attorney Victor Berrange. "will seek to show that these prosecutions . . . are for the purpose of testing the political breeze to determine how far the originators [of the trial] can go in their attempts to stifle free speech, criticism of government policies and all that the accused believe is implicit in their definition of the often misused word 'democracy.' ... A battle of ideas has indeed been started...
...R.P.M. RECORDS are being slashed in price to get bigger share of booming teen-age market for inexpensive disks. RCA Victor will spend $1,000,000 in 1957 for ads to plug 45s, has cut album prices up to 40%. RCA and top rival Columbia will price individual extended-play 45s at $1.29, down from...