Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion to listen to the premiere of an operetta which his friend the composer had written. Surprised and delighted was he to discover that the melody written on the daycoach was the hit of the show, called "Kiss Me Again." It is still a good song. Its composer, Victor Herbert, is dead. But the lady who first introduced it, Fritzi Scheff (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929), still sings it. Last winter she took the production from which the song came-Mille. Modiste-on tour. And the journalist is still well and happy. He is General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated...
...Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd named an Antarctic range the Charles Bob Mountains, most people were mystified. The Rockefeller Mountains and Marie Byrd Land had been understandable. But who was Charles Bob? Investigators learned that he was a tall, broad-shouldered, genial man of 42 with the middle name of Victor who had come to Manhattan's financial district from the West, maintained luxurious offices at 120 Broadway. In these offices he busied himself over the affairs of many enterprises, three of which especially stood out. One was Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., long involved in a raucous patent squabble with...
...away that tracing the call would be useless. A few days later another man claiming to be Mr. Bob's secretary (but giving a different name) called a Washington newspaper to say the missing man would show up in a few days. But Charles Victor Bob stayed missing. It was learned that he had cashed a check for $108,000 the day before he vanished...
...Victor Bruce was loafing along in easy jumps. Flight Lieut. C. W. Hill, another Australian, flew his Moth into Surabaya, Java two days ahead of Hinkler's schedule. But there Kingsford-Smith, who left England four days behind, was close on his tail. The two were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also...
...Australia. Four British subjects were soloing from England to Australia last week: English Lieut. C. W. Hill who reached Siam safely; Australian Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Atlantic & Pacific crosser, flying to marry Mary Powell at Melbourne; Captain F. R. Matthews, who crashed between Bankok and Singapore; Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, who intends to go around the world by easy stages. Last week her motor failed over the mountains near Jask, Persia. Courteous hillmen brought her mechanical...