Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love (Lena Home; Victor). Lovely Lena's light, smooth voice vibrates with happiness in this so-so song from Wonderful Town...
...George Gallup, casting about for some light summer questions to ask the public, tried this one: "Who would be the victor if the two greatest votegetters of all time-Dwight D. Eisenhower and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt-were to run against each other in a presidential election?" Put to the Gallup test, 52% of the polled public voted for Roosevelt last week, 43% were for Eisenhower, 5% could not make up their minds. Democrats favored F.D.R. by a margin of 85 to 15, Republicans liked Ike 83 to 17, and Independents gave Eisenhower...
...love that Mama and Papa Wouk lavished on him, his sister Irene and his brother Victor warms Herman to this day. Best of all he liked the Sabbath. As a rabbi's daughter, "Mama was treated rather like a princess around the house." But when Friday afternoon came, "she scrubbed the kitchen on her hands and knees until the place shone. The candles were lit, and we sang the joyful Sabbath hymns and drank the sacramental wine; the children, too. My father usually talked about the Bible." As in Marjorie Morgenstern's home, the menu was always gefilte...
...that it had been called the Harp of King David. Its richly carved case-so people said-was hewn of wood from Solomon's temple in Jerusalem. That part was legend, but the piano itself was fact. It stood, the old man told young Avner Carmi, in King Victor Emanuel's palace in Rome, and Avner's mission was to call on the King one day, in order to see and hear the wondrous instrument...
Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb; with Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME...