Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satisfied with having wrecked the lives of Gershwin and Porter in two tries, Warners is busily at work on the life of Vincent Youmans. No doubt the Youmans opus will make it three for three, the prospect of which makes one long for the good old days when Don Ameche was playing composers for Twentieth Century...
...London, to the High Commissionership vacated six months ago by retired Vincent Massey, went shy, brainy Norman Alexander Robertson, 42. He was a Rhodes Scholar at 19, then taught at the University of British Columbia and at Harvard before joining the Department in 1929. Since 1941 he has been its Under Secretary. His specialty: trade and economics...
John Jacob Astor III, 34, plum-shaped posthumous son of the Colonel* and half-brother of Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that...
...were at work on the Burke-Bromley claims alone, clearing topsoil. Diamond drillers would start work soon. A tent city sprouted nearby and hundreds of gold-seekers lived in sleeping bags. Little Foleyet (pop. 2,000), twelve miles north, was jammed. Big mining firms like Hollinger, Mclntyre, Moneta and Vincent were buying up claims at fancy prices. The Canadian National Railways was already making emergency stops a mile from the strike site, and there was talk of putting in a spur...
Black Angel (Universal) is the kind of murder mystery that ought to turn up more often. It is not memorable, in the Hitchcock sense, but neat, alert and thoroughly enjoyable. Its story: the husband (Dan Duryea) of a murdered blackmailer (Constance Dowling) and the wife (June Vincent) of the man condemned as the killer, try to find out who really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples...