Word: vincent
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diocese. Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara began by poking so many irons into the fire (and looking to his flock to keep the blaze going) that when one prosperous Catholic businessman was asked whether he had been around to see the new bishop he replied: "I'd like to, but I can't. I can't afford it." Last week, in the big ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, 155 members of Bishop O'Hara's clergy gathered to cele brate his tenth anniversary in the diocese...
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy McConnel Mayo, and two daughters, Mrs. Walter Goetz and Mrs. Guy Vincent, all of England...
Expert. In Denver, Wendell Vincent, head of the local office of the Federal Food & Drug Administration, was recovering nicely from a case of food poisoning...
What happened to Melville in 1850? To find out, Professor Howard Vincent has dug through the materials Melville used for Moby-Dick, and produced an ingenious study in literary genetics...
...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...