Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleon III; his grandfather fought the Germans who invaded his native France in 1870; his father, who emigrated to Canada, returned in 1914 to fight the Germans again. It seemed only natural for Paul at 19 to enlist as a private in the Royal 22nd Regiment, the "Van Doos...
...Philip Van Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
...periods of conditioning will be sufficient this week, it was announced last night by Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the Physical Education Department. Attention was also called to the fact that all exemptions granted last term on the basis of a heavy schedule have now expired and anyone desiring renewals this term must apply to the Physical Education Department...
...Yale another Van Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
White-haired, 63-year-old Carl Van Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming...