Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started more or less innocently when the institute's Dr. Vincent P. Dole and colleagues were trying to learn what factors in a diet determine how much fat the eater will store up, and whether there is anything peculiar about fat storage in obese people. Soon they had 32 patients in the institute's hospital, plus ten outpatients, on a low-protein diet with no restriction on the total daily calories-the test subjects could eat as much bread and butter with jam or jelly as they wanted, put sugar and cream in their coffee. Most of them...
Almost as if the promoters could not quite count on their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome...
...includes 40 hymns, responses, prayers, glorias and amens, all composed by 41-year-old Composer-Pianist Vincent Persichetti. to fit verses by more than a dozen poets, including famed versifier Anon. A teacher at Manhattan's Juilliard...
Died. Alice Muriel Astor Pleydell-Bouverie, 54, four-times-married daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor (who went down with the Titanic), sister of Vincent, half-sister of John Jacob Astor III, onetime wife of Russian Prince Serge Obolensky; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
Somebody Up There Likes Me (MGM) is the sort of Lower Depths that Maxim Gorky might have written had he been born a 20th century American and learned philosophy from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Based on the "autobiography" of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano (as ghosted by Sportswriter Rowland Barber), the film begins and ends with a treacly title song ("Yes! Somebody up there likes me; Whatever betide me. he'll comfort and guide me, And stand beside me right or wrong . . .") throbbingly delivered by Singer Perry Como...