Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster. "Illustrates the lawyer's duty of fidelity to his client...
Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...Balding, sharp-nosed Vincent Sardi, Manhattan restaurateur, donated the interest on his War Bonds as it accrued, made other cash gifts; his total was close...
...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
Chic and dainty as a Dresden doll, Heiress Babs tripped into Judge Thurmond Clarke's court. She had charged Actor Gary Grant, 41, with "mental cruelty." Grant did not appear, but his manager, Frank Vincent, was there. Barbara threw her arms about him. trilled "Hello, darling." Then she settled down to describing tall, dark & handsome Husband Grant's cruelty...