Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best things about the screen production are the sets (by Vincent Korda), the costumes (by Cecil Beaton), and the exquisitely muted Technicolor. Most of the casting and acting are good too. The weakest things are the uneven reading of the lines, the lethargic pace, and the final visual essence of the picture...
...thirty years behind other eastern colleges in out good neighbor policy," said co-founder Patrick D. Dalley '50 last night as he described the make up of the incipient "Key," worked out by Dailey (who is chairman of the Student Council's H.A.A. committee), Hall, Vincent W. Jones, Jr. '45, and Edward L. Maguire...
...surgeon last week offered hope to the thousands of victims sterilized by the Nazis (by the tying or cutting of the excretory ducts of the testes). Dr. Vincent J. O'Conor, Northwestern University Medical School urologist, reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association that he has operated on 14 sterilized men; nine became fertile. He queried other urologists; 135 reported that they had performed 420 operations to restore fertility, succeeded in 35 to 40% of the cases. The operation, anastomosis (reconnection) of the vas deferens, is not difficult, he added: any surgeon...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...