Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable. But, mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson...
...Orator last year was Vincent Palmer...
...Sanborn Vincent '38, of Brookline, won the Varsity tennis managerial contest which ended yesterday. Leonard H. Dowse '39 won the Freshman competition...
Last week a tall, white-bearded old gentleman named Laurence Vincent Benet returned to make his home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine...
...Manhattan last week rich old Mr. Benet parried interviewers with: "Why should you want to write about me? I'm just a horny-handed engineer. I'm not interesting. My nephews are." Nephews are Poets William Rose Benet and Stephen Vincent Benet...