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Word: vincent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month, as a Gallic gesture of gratitude, a "Merci, America" train of 49 French boxcars will be shipped across the Atlantic, with such gifts for the 48 states and Hawaii as Sevres vases from President Vincent Auriol and bronze school bells from Caen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Three Musketeers | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

...interest which the profession has in the fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Nieman Fellows Get Classes, Reading, Leisure In University's Unique Newspaper Grad School | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Vincent Sheean and others discuss Mohandas Gandhi's autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...President of France did not say a word as the results came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Oats for My Horse | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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