Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greer Garson, perched on a rock for some moviemaking, was knocked off her perch by an outsize wave and carried 30 feet out into Monterey Bay. Promptly Vincent Sallecito, a sardine fisherman acting as an extra, waded in, carried her out. Miss Garson was taken to a hospital with cuts, bruises, and a sprained back. The fisherman was taken over by the press. Said he: it was like "fishing a slippery sardine out of a bucket." He warmed to his subject: "I've often dreamed of myself clasping Greer Garson in my arms, but I never thought I would...
...Greenwich Village laboratory, John Vincent Lawless Hogan, founder and president of New York's WQXR* and a topflight inventor since 1910, demonstrated his new facsimile newspaper transmitter and receiver. Plugged to an FM radio, his recorder rolled out a 9½-by-12-inch newspaper like a paper towel, 500 words a minute, 16 pages an hour. No linotype, press or delivery boy was needed; everything on the pages was broadcast free. It came in clear as an advertiser's tear sheet...
...Died. Vincent Youmans, 47, composer of some of the nation's most hummed tunes (Tea for Two, Without a Song, Hallelujah); of tuberculosis; in Denver...
...year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
THIS HOUSE AGAINST THIS HOUSE (420 pp.)-Vincent Sheean-Random House...