Word: victors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finding the People. Harry Belafonte is currently one of the briskest-selling items in show business. He has signed a ten-year, $10,000-a-year contract with RCA Victor, is negotiating a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox and a contract with NBC to do four TV spectaculars a year for five years. He has also teamed up with Ed Murrow to produce a See It Now show on the quiet pools of native culture that have survived the intrusions of modern life, e.g., remote hamlets of the Appalachians, tiny islands off the Georgia coast. But whatever else...
...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...
...second trial (the first conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court), Salazar's prosecutors were models of tolerance and gallantry. They addressed the prisoner deferentially as "Your Excellency," and allowed his partisans to harangue the court with a revolutionary tirade well peppered with liberal quotes from Victor Hugo ("When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right...
...Wonderful World (Barbara Carroll Trio; RCA Victor). A wide-ranging sampler of one of the most imaginative jazz pianists going, with selections ranging from the strutting, heavily accented No Moon at All to a feather-soft brush-over of Rodgers' and Hart's Spring Is Here. The whole is marked by a lively, note-clear touch and a beat that shifts and slides with the mood...
...Victor A. Fischel says: "We believe that we ought to have the right to tell any true story in advertising our product. The Government says we cannot make any claim to therapeutic values, regardless of truth. That is an odd position, considering the fact that the only liquor that could be sold legally during Prohibition was liquor for medicinal purposes...