Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VICTOR T. RAEBURN...
Every year the Women's Association of the Pittsburgh Symphony Society sponsors a ball, the city's outstanding social event, for the benefit of the 60-year-old orchestra, whose first conductor was Victor Herbert. This year, I am pleased to report, the association chose TIME Inc. publications for both title and decorative inspiration. Amid the pageantry of the ball, bejeweled women and their white-tied escorts moved from room to room, each of which was styled after a TIME Inc. publication. There were, for example, imitation gold coins and a wheel in the FORTUNE Room, putting greens...
Senator Warren Magnuson is a supremely confident man. Recently the Republican National Committee sent Victor Johnston, one of its ablest legmen, on a scouting expedition to Seattle to look into the chances of unseating Magnuson this year. Johnston came back to the capital with the depressing report that Magnuson seemed to be unbeatable. Soon afterward he ran into Magnuson, who greeted him warmly and said that he had heard that Vic had just been to Seattle...
...grab-bag M.N.R., called Fascist until it seized power in a revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the M.N.R., in convention, chose another moderate, Vice President Hernan Siles Zuazo, as the party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. Then, as the convention went on, Guevara and Lechin began trading verbal blows from the floor...
...politicians of the center, flanked by the Communists on one side and the tax-defying Poujadists on the other, made the usual noises last week about submerging differences. But Mollet firmly rejected a "national union" of all the democratic center parties, as likely to bring only more immobilism. As "victor," he said, the Republican Front should form a government alone...