Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
Douglas MacArthur, the victor of Korea, called on Pyongyang to surrender (see below...
There are four characters in Steinbeck's drama. In Act 1 they are circus performers concerned with the sterility of the hero, Joe Saul, In the second act Steinbeck makes them farmers, and by now wife Barbara Bel Geddes is about to have a child by a youth named Victor. Dramatic irony is carried to an extreme as Joe rants of nothing but "his" child. By the time the third act arrives, the characters are all sea-going folk, and Miss Bel Geddes is flagrantly pregnant...
...more concerts will come in the Spring. On March 22, Lucille Cummings, recording artists for Victor who has sung with the Boston Symphony, will be the featured soloist. Then the final concert (with a program still undetermined) will come during the first week...
Trans-Radio Corporation, which out both the 1946 album and the 1949 "Half-Time" album, made the recordings, Victor did the pressing and the Band itself will handle distribution...