Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the busiest official in Washington last week was James Vincent Forrestal, 52, a slight, slender man with a broken nose, a man who once told an interviewer that his hobby was "obscurity...
Back from war-pinched Britain to prosperous Canada came R.C.A.F. Group Captain Denton Massey (cousins: Actor Raymond Massey, Canadian Diplomat Vincent Massey). In the House of Commons, Group Captain Massey took his old seat. Last week he spoke...
...Vincent Lopez published a book called What's Ahead (David McKay; $1) about his astrological activities, claimed many sharp prophecies in the past, ventured a few more: "Money as a business in itself will be abolished around 1948"; "the present form of home life will be eliminated...
...Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian parodies by Doyle idolaters, from Mark Twain to Vincent Starrett; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Harcourt, Brace: $2), which reprints five famous Holmes stories, edited and copiously annotated by Christopher Morley...
...January 1942, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Chicago Daily News columnist, wrote this simple story of how a father feels when he says good-by to a soldier son. Before the year was out, millions of Americans felt that they knew slim, tall (5 ft., 11 in.) Donel O'Brien, 20, a fresh, handsome kid with wavy blond hair and a quick, Irish grin. For twelve years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist...