Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...
...Vincent Astor, who was christened William Vincent Astor, went to court in Manhattan to stop a Vincent Astor Williams from doing business as the Vincent Astor Purchasing Co. Retorted Williams: his grandmother was Vincent Astor's great aunt, and he had just as much right to drop the Williams from one end of his name as Astor had to drop the William from the other...
Gilman chose for his reading a passage from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body," Projecting himself admirably into the part of Abraham Lincoln, he managed to put across effectively a restrained, yet highly emotional selection...
Hodgkin's disease, an agonizing and hopeless sickness, kills more than 3,000 people a year in the U.S. Doctors know very little about it except that it is 100% fatal. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Antonio Rottino, chief pathologist at St. Vincent's Hospital, announced the formation of a research foundation that will study Hodgkin's disease and try to track down its cause & cure...
Saint Patrick is being honored by the University in its own way today with the appointment of John Vincent Kelleher, Jr. as assistant professor of Modern Irish History and Literature...