Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Michigan, young (39), bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, an upset victor in 1948, was running into trouble because of his dutiful following of C.I.O. leads. The Republicans hoped to beat him with ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, one-legged veteran of World War I, who is one of the best votegetters in the state's history...
Most people who brood about the horrors of war think of the bomb and forget the germs. Last week Dr. Victor H. Haas, head of the Government's Microbiological Institute, warned that 1) biological warfare is a definite possibility, and 2) the U.S. is ill-equipped at present to ward off such an attack. The nation has too few facilities even for detecting the minute organisms that an enemy might use, Dr. Haas told the College of American Pathologists in Chicago, and no organization to combat the widespread disease they might cause...
...York harbor, immigration authorities seized one distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because...
...Rainy Day Refrain (Mindy Carson; Victor). A cute and cozy little seasonal number, sung with lazy appeal; one the trade picks to catch...
...first thing to say about Alistair Cooke's treatment of Alger Hiss is that it is honest and carefully, almost painfully, impartial. These days that is saying a good deal. A previously published book on the Hiss trial ("Seeds of Treason" by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky) paints so black a picture of the defendant that probably even Thomas F. Murphy, the erstwhile prosecutor, would raise an occasional eyebrow over it. Mr. Cooke, then, is accurate. Whether he is more than that is another question...