Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...
...General Vincent. Almost but not quite so big (6 ft., 175 lb.), Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, the Air Forces' second boy general, is a fighter pilot and the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's famed action comic, Terry and the Pirates, but has not appeared in the strip since its scene shifted to Burma. Caniff got acquainted with Vincent through a fan letter written by Vincent's wife to the cartoonist. "I picked his brains," says Caniff...
Born 29 years ago in Gale, Texas, Vincent was graduated from West Point in 1936. After Pearl Harbor he went to China to fight under Chennault, became his operations officer and deputy chief of staff. He is credited with six Jap kills. When he got his D.F.C. last year, he had taken off on more than 50 missions totaling 144 hours of combat flying. He now commands one of General Chennault's most important "composite" (Chinese and U.S.) units...
...Private Vincent Forret wrote: "We get off the trucks and about that time a red flare was shot in the air by the enemy...
...third year on the Broadway stage, and other critics have attacked "Gaslight" with an unfavorable contrast between play and movie. These attacks are not justified if the picture is considered on its own merits. Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten are every bit as effective as Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, and Leo G. Carroll. It is said that "Angel Street" held its suspense better by concentrating all of the action within an oppressive, plushy, Victorian house; but "Gaslight" achieves its suspense through typically Hollywood, yet very telling, means--with background music, lighting and camera angles...