Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Vincent Astor, peacetime yachtsman (the Nourmahal), was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon in Manhattan for "meritorious performance . . . initiative, unflagging energy and devotion" to administrative duties with the Confidential Fishing Vessel Observers, who watched for subs while fishing along the Atlantic Coast...
Married. Arline Judge, 33, cinemactress, and Vincent Morgan Ryan, 40, Chicago adman; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: Movie Director Wesley Rugples. Tinplate Heir Dan Topping, R.A.F. Captain James Addams (who left for England eight days after their 1942 marriage, never returned...
...Pupil Roy Flynn's check from Farrar & Rinehart was for The Changeling, the young (26) man's first novel and winner of the $1,000 Stephen Vincent Benét Scholarship; it was scheduled for publication next spring, and was the 14th novel accepted from a Strode student...
...Dark-haired ex-boxer James Vincent Portell, 32, was in business as the Colony Beauty Shoppe, on Washington's Georgia Avenue N.W. His profit was running $100 weekly; he and his wife planned to pay off both a $2,000 G.I. loan and a $1,000 bank loan this year. Beautician Portell, who taught Army rookies how to square off, learned his trade before...
...behind the stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...