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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When John Jacob Astor II went down on the Titanic, most of his fortune went to 20-year-old Son Vincent, only a few million to Son John Jacob III, then unborn. Since Vincent has no direct heirs, William is heir apparent to both fortunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...PEACE BUT A SWORD-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reporter's Return | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...writer-director for Paramount in Hollywood, will direct three of the plays in the Festival; Robson, one. Most famed of the Workshop's plays. Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City, goes on the air September 28. Other good bets: an adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (July 20), and a bombing fantasy, They Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease (September 7), both by Norman Corwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prestige Programs | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...surgeon's saw used to amputate Lord Nelson's arm at Cape St. Vincent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal and Historic | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boomps, Yips | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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