Word: vincent
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...modern 53rd Street residence in 1939. Its Modern Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such workers in the International Style as Germany's Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years...
...most recent issue of Nature to reach the U.S., a fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. Vincent B. Wigglesworth, at long last pointed out that Wordsworth was a strange bedfellow for scientists' "self-esteem." In evidence, Dr. Wigglesworth cited other Wordsworthian lines...
Exploit. On leave, a group of Marine Corps combat correspondents discussing their exploits of the night before demanded that silent Jack Vincent speak...
...Beautiful Meal. Then King went visiting, first privately to an R.C.A.F. bomber group whose squadrons bear the nostalgic names Snowy Owl, Alouette, Thunderbird and Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when...
Without even a sidelong political glance, Franklin Roosevelt nominated for Secretary of the Navy the brisk and efficient Under Secretary, James Vincent Forrestal (TIME, May 15). Not since 1941, when he elevated Harlan Fiske Stone to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was there such unanimous approval of a Presidential appointment. Press, public and the Navy cheered. The President had infused his official family with able young blood. The addition of Jimmy Forrestal, 52, lowers the average age of the Roosevelt Cabinet from 63.7 to 61.9 years...