Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, U. S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Leibell ordered Loews Inc. and three subsidiaries to pay Authors Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes $532,153 for plagiarizing their play Dishonored Lady, produced in 1930, in the picture Letty Lynton, produced...
...Elected last month were Novelist Willa Gather and Poet Stephen Vincent...
Born in Rochester, N. Y. of Irish-Catholic parentage, Barry was graduated from Yale in 1918. At Yale he was part of a literary flowering that also included Stephen Vincent Benét, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder. Later Barry enrolled at Harvard in George Pierce Baker's famed 47 Workshop, went from there to Broadway with his successful Harvard Prize Play, You and I. Married and the father of two young sons, Barry for years lived abroad, now lives in Florida. His good friends include such well-known sophisticates as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart. This fall...
Chapter 1. Before Judge Edwin Stark Thomas in the U. S. District Court at Hartford, Conn, last week appeared Vincent W. Dennis, a McKesson & Robbins' stockholder and corporation counsel of Hartford. Representing that at least $10,000,000 in nonexistent assets had been fraudulently written up on the company's books, Stockholder Dennis asked for a temporary equity receivership...
Touchiest subjects are political disputes, but most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...