Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brains behind the new transmission, like those behind many another Packard innovation, belong to Colonel Jesse G. Vincent, Packard's chief engineer. Unlike most engineers, Vincent never attended college; he quit school after the eighth grade, got his degree from a correspondence school. After a stint with Burroughs Adding Machine Co. and one with the Hudson Motor Car Co., he joined Packard in 1912, became a vice president three years later, specializing in engines...
...speedboat racer himself, Vincent once took such a battering from Gar Wood's backwash that he emerged from the cockpit of his boat black & blue, and groaned: "I'm through with this. I'll fly airplanes." Fly them he did until four years ago when he turned 65 and felt he "should depend . . . on the skill of someone else much younger." Packard is still depending on Vincent's skill. It set a postwar Packard record by selling 11,594 cars in March...
...Vincent L. McKusick 3L of Guilford, Maine, has been named President of The Harvard Law Review and Horace R. Baldwin 3L of New York will serve as 1949-50 Treasurer...
...Goig My Way" both won many awards and, because of their "religious" nature, were of great prestige value to the Academy and ammunition in their eternal war with moralist groups. This past year, the Academy in its first recognition of foreign-language films, gave its "Oscar" to "Monsieur Vincent," a film dealing with the struggles of a Roman Catholic saint, by-passing one of the finest films of our times "Symphonie Pastorale," which is about a Calvlnist pastor...
There is nothing subtle in "Monsieur Vincent." Saints, one may assume, are not subtle people, and the producers fortunately did not succumb to a temptation to modernize or sophisticate this story of the good man in a sorrowful world. They filmed the saint's life straight-forwardly, and that, together with the abilities of Pierre Fresnay, makes "Monsieur Vincent" worthy of all the awards it has already received in Europe...