Word: vigo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both American and foreign, would, in any ordinary year, be on a ten-best list; there were also some unusually good tries, and some well-made minor pictures. The French Zero De Conduite, a weird, anarchic comedy about schoolboys, was made 14 years ago by the late, inspired Jean Vigo. First shown in the U.S. last summer, it was a box-office flop. But it was one of the most original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill...
...course "most wished for" by last June's graduates, who are now serving at depots and other stations, will be inaugurated for cadets Monday. Vigo G. Nielsen, instructor in Business Administration will conduct a series of nine lectures on Civilian Personnel at Military Detachments as a part of the Quartermaster Administration course for all terms. Last fall Nielsen directed a similar series of lectures for the class which is now at Camp Lee, and he regularly instructs Personnel courses at the school...
Travel Notes--We were happy to receive word of the appointment of Mr. Myles L. Mace and Mr. Robert S. McNamara of the original Stat School civilian faculty, to Captain. Both officers are on active duty overseas. Mr. Harry Hausen and Mr. Vigo Nielson are on duty in Florida, while both Mr. Jackson Glover and Captain Ross F. Jones are in Miami selecting the students of Class 8-43, due here April...
...Besides the homing Altmark and Baldur, the British and French last week intercepted and captured two out of six Nazi ships trying to slip home from Vigo, Spain. Germany's first and big Altmark revenge was torpedoing the destroyer Daring with loss...