Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most heavily official and fashionable of all art shows-the spring Salon-opened last week in Paris' Right Bank Palais de New York. Ten thousand people, led by the President of France, Vincent Auriol, jammed through the halls on opening day. Some of them found their neighbors' gowns more attractive than the pictures. The acres of art on exhibition (2,000 paintings, 200 pieces of sculpture) were almost uniformly slick, deft and academic...
Steve Pratt and Ted Bullard took their singles matches, Pratt pulling his into the credit column in a last minute flash of prowess. Number one doubles team, Vincent Brandt and Ted Backe, won the only doubles match completed...
Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...
Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...