Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Damn Yankees (original Broadway cast; Victor LP). Gwen Verdon, whose dancing warms up this show onstage, duplicates the favor vocally for the record. It needs her. Except for the rowdy tune called Whatever Lola Wants (TIME, May 16). nothing quite matches the lines, written by the same team (Richard Adler-Jerry Ross), for last year's Pajama Game...
Breaking company commandments, he tried to organize Ford workers. Soon after Franklin D. Roosevelt's election in 1932, Walter Reuther was fired by Ford. He and his brother Victor withdrew their savings (some $900) just before the 1933 bank closing and sailed on a world "tour of social engineering." The brothers got to Berlin just in time to see Hitler's Reichstag fire. In eleven months they bicycled through ten countries, sleeping at farms and youth hostels, visiting mines and factories-"studying life," said Walter. They got visas to Soviet Russia and worked for 16 months with other...
...anything. "You ask him what time it is," complained U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, "and he'll tell you how to make a watch." One Small Beer. When the Reuther brothers were touring Europe, they arrived hot and hungry one night in Munich's Hofbräuhaus. Victor challenged Walter to down a liter of bock beer before dinner. He did and has not cared for drinking since. At cocktail parties he takes a Manhattan, eats the cherry and leaves the drink. At a union meeting once, he promised to "have fun with the boys afterwards" in return...
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...
Anyone guessing the total number of CRIMSON predictions for honorary degrees will win a free trip to Australia. Last year's victor, Gerald Goodfen '29, writes that he soon hopes to win a trip back. The Editors cordially invite any contestants and all former editors to drop by the Building (14 Plympton Street) after the baseball game to refresh and reminisce...