Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain; Vincent Sheean, prematurely greying veteran of the Riff rebellion, Spain's Civil War, the Nazi occupation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, who covered the Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance; carrot-thatched, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, roving war correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, who came home...
High point of Power and the Land is the earthy, simple commentary written by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet and read in a hayseed drawl by Radio Actor William P. Adams. Typical Beneticism: "This is good land-not the best and not the worst. But it has raised five kids, and that's good work for any land. . . . Kids are just about the best crop there...
Married. Dark, beauteous Mary B. Gushing, 34, daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Harvey Gushing, elder sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and her longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor...
...comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with the script finished, the kidney trouble returned, forced him back to the hospital. There, last week, Grover Jones, 47, died...
Some of the murals portrayed little-known points of law. In the main hall, the Pennsylvania Academy's George Harding painted an old man with a violin: the artist's idea of symbolizing the fact that in Pennsylvania grandchildren are liable for the support of their grandparents. Vincent Maragliotti, ecclesiastical painter, showed the court as an angel in pursuit of a husband who has deserted his wife and child. Alice Kent Stoddard, Philadelphia painter of children, made a sedate, fuzzy mural of children building a city of tomorrow, with her Maltese cat in one corner. Another mural...