Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VINCENT L. TERWILLIGER Port Ewen...
...week, the building was swarming with cops, detectives, reporters, gallery directors and art experts. The reason: six paintings were missing, and two more had been slightly damaged. The thieves had stolen Frans Hals's portraits of Isaak Abrahamsz Massa (conservatively valued by gallery officials at $120,000) and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ($80,000), Rembrandt's portraits of a Lady with a Lap Dog ($150,000) and a Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross ($20,000). It was probably...
...Diefenbaker, formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and in all important respects serves as the Queen's standin, exercising her powers and prerogatives. His main function is to exemplify the unifying symbol of the Crown in his travels across the land. His predecessor set an arduous example. Retiring Vincent Massey, 72, in his 7½ years as Canada's first native-born Governor General, entertained 75,000 Canadians at Government House in Ottawa, traveled 200,000 miles across the nation, and-exercising a royal prerogative-gave holidays to 250,000 schoolchildren...
Died. Dr. Stenio Vincent, 93, golden-tongued, learned, onetime (1930-41) President of Haiti, who won popular backing by denouncing the 19-year U.S. Marine occupation, finally (1934) persuaded President Roosevelt to withdraw the Marines; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
Equipped for the occasion with a Mirage III jet fighter, Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 41, daughter-in-law of former French President Vincent Auriol, shot up to 37,000 ft. and gunned the ship to a new women's air speed record: 1,336 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...