Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
...Rheinhardt, Rheinhardt, I'm a most indifferent guy . . . But I love my Vincent . . ." Vag was back in his room, listening to records and recovering from Yale weekend. Funny, he used to listen to that song and think of how it fit. Used to agree when his friends called him the most indifferent guy. And then he saw a football game...
...Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express, Evening Standard) moved to double the Express' U.S. staff. He added a reporter to his one-man Washington bureau, planned to inaugurate a San Francisco office, make two or three more men available for national coverage out of New York City. Explained Cecil Vincent Raymond Thompson, chief of the Express' Manhattan bureau: "The idea is to increase the quality more than the quantity of output ... to provide the best possible inside on America for Britain...
...struggled to write books, short stories, articles. Finally, desperate and dipsomaniac, he went voluntarily to a New York State hospital for the insane (Bloomingdale) where he was forcibly kept from drink for nearly a year. On leaving, he was sufficiently cured to write three books, "to dance with Mrs. Vincent Astor . . . and win the Herald Tribune garden-club prize for the best-kept lawns and flower beds...
This fantastic vitamin was isolated in 1936 by Professor Fritz Kögl of Utrecht, Holland but Biochemist Vincent Du Vigneaud of Cornell and his colleagues identified it as an animal vitamin in 1940. The possible molecular patterns ran into millions. Last January, Dr. Du Vigneaud and colleagues were able to announce that the possible molecular patterns had been reduced to five; then when the position of the nitrogen atoms was ascertained, these were...