Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture had a star," says Levine frankly, "it'd be a flop. Nobody could imagine that even Clark Gable or Victor Mature could do such things. But they never heard of Reeves-a year ago he couldn't have got arrested-so they'll believe anything he does...
...VICTOR TUDAN The Mannequin Shoppe Hartford, Conn...
...Pope warned against error, ignorance ("the source and root of all evil") and war, which can only bring "appalling destruction and ruin, and this whether the people are victor or vanquished." He urged statesmen "to try every approach" leading to "fraternal harmony of nations." Turning to another kind of harmony, the Pope hoped that the forthcoming Ecumenical Council (TIME, Feb. 9) will move non-Catholic Christians to join the Church as a "wonderful manifestation of unity . . . When we lovingly invite you to the unity of the Church, we are inviting you not to the home of a stranger...
...Arches of Triumph made out of flowers, and at least one made out of cake. At Magenta, De Gaulle inspected the 4th Regiment of the plumed Italian Bersaglieri, whose predecessors fought there a century ago. Near Solferino, he and President Gronchi lunched at a villa where Napeleon III and Victor Emmanuel gloated over a victory banquet that had been set for the Emperor of Austria, who never got around...
...Victor A. Lundy, a 36-year-old ex-combat infantryman (Purple Heart) and Harvard graduate who settled in Florida six years ago, promptly began making a name for his small, Sarasota-based firm by arguing that a house need not be a box, or even box-shaped. In his top-prizewinning house for Samuel H. Herron Jr. at Venice, Fla. (see color and blueprint). Lundy threw a parasol of laminated southern pine arches over the living areas as an independent roof shelter, then skillfully combined the whole series of circles and rectangles into a floor plan that he hoped would...