Word: vincent
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When New York's Mayor Vincent Impellitteri got beaten in the Democratic primary last month by Robert F. Wagner, 43, son of the late Senator Robert F. (Wagner Act) Wagner, he simply re-oiled his rusty armor and re-entered the lists as an independent. Since Impy got to City Hall in the first place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality without...
...Roman Catholic priests in the diocese of Raleigh, N.C. got a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters which in one stroke ended...
...movement, Rangaswami joined the New Delhi bureau seven years ago as a stenographer and interpreter, gradually became indispensable and was raised to full-correspondent status two years ago. Much in demand as guide and interpreter for traveling U.S. correspondents and authors, he has shepherded such visitors as John Gunther, Vincent Sheean. Margaret Bourke-White and David Douglas Duncan, who knew him by reputation and looked him up on their brief passages through India. These diverse and highly individualistic types have failed to give him a clear idea of the "typical American." In fact, says Rangaswami, those mysterious Westerners still leave...
...young man, Vincent Van Gogh, the son of a Calvinist minister, worked as a lay preacher among the poor coal miners of Belgium. At 26 he was dismissed by church authorities because his methods were too unorthodox (e.g., he gave his money, his clothes, even his bed to his flock). But for the rest of his short (1853-90), tormented life, Van Gogh's art showed a religious fervor that made his work leap from the canvas into the heart...
...Magician (Columbia, 3-D), is a follow-up to the money-making House of Wax (TIME, April 20), again starring Vincent Price. Explains a Columbia official: "Everything pops out of the screen in this one. Price is shown cutting off a girl's head with a buzz saw. He is burned to death in a big steel box with a glass window...