Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married. Victor Mature, 45, hulking cinemactor (The Big Circus), and Joy Urwick, 25, British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Tijuana, Mexico...
...Victor Manusevitch's programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only...
...unfortunate for mankind that the fast development of space technology is taking place under the auspices of rival nations instead of being pushed by an international organization under the United Nations. The victor in the present space race will have all nations at his mercy. The only way to induce Russia to collaborate internationally for the common good lies in the U.S. overcoming the Soviet lead in space and, subsequently, offering to share its knowledge, with, however, adequate safeguards...
...Habit Is Everything. As general manager of the RCA Victor Record Division of the Radio Corporation of America, George Marek, 57, ranks as the world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books...
...gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular music critic of Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. In 1950 he made a pitch for the advertising account of RCA Victor, was turned down, but found himself with a job there as classical repertory chief...