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Last February Francis E. Vincelli tried to join the regular Army and was rejected: his eyesight was not good enough. With a bad case of the haughties, he hit the redeye, was soon good & drunk. Near his home in New York City's Borough of Queens he passed an optician's show window. That was too much for angry Vincelli; he smashed the window. Last week, having paid for the window, he was up in court on a charge of third-degree burglary. His defense: the Army had accepted him after all. Said the Court: "It seems evident...
...quiet town of Fécamp, France, some 25 miles northeast of Le Havre, the Benedictine monks for centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur...
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