Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan: Democrat Patrick Vincent McNamara, 60, outdrew Senator Ferguson at the polls on the coattails of popular Governor "Soapy" Williams and with the help of unemployment in the automobile industry. A hearty Irishman with a toothy smile, McNamara is a member of the Detroit board of education, president of a local pipefitters' union and customers' contact man for a construction firm...
...Supermen. In New Bedford, Mass., after police recaptured Jailbreakers Charles Cardoza and Albert Vincent, the prisoners explained that they had not heard police surround their hideaway because they were too absorbed in reading comic books...
Above the spray of white gladioli appeared the plump, beaming face of the pastor, the smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years...
...bargain package includes not only this spectacle of a character in the making, but some really rare Vincent Price. His hulking form minces about as he plays a repellent playboy and he does very well by his part. Posturing, he simpers to the tough detective by way of explaining an erratic alibi, "I'm the unconventional type...
Zavatone said that his group and its chaplain, the Rev. Vincent A. McQuade, felt very definitely that there was no need for use of House funds--especially he added in view of the PBH Association's great financial needs...