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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the anthem still needed most was not new harmonies but a singable melody. (A streamlined, octave-cheating version by Bandleader Vincent Lopez had failed to catch on.) Best way to sing The Star-Spangled Banner is still the conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not Even Stravinsky | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Letters to Lucerne (by Fritz Rotter & Allen Vincent; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). War, via letters from home, comes to a small Swiss boarding school, peopled with girls of many nationalities. The junior misses, the most attractive part of the play (see p. 54), are nice but inadequate when they try to cope with worldwide catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Lytle Hull, the ex-Mrs. Vincent Astor, vice-chairman of the New York State Defense Savings Committee, decided to give everybody the same Christmas present: books of defense saving stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Vincent Lopez, bandsman and astrology enthusiast: "If the Japanese will study the planets they will see that Japan is the natural ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Among members of the committee sponsoring the convention are: William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progressive Student Groups To Plan Merger In Convention Here | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

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