Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent Van Gogh...
After a twelve-week warmup, the bare-stage version of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (TIME, Dec. 22) began its Broadway run last week. The show starring Judith Anderson, Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part...
...conference of U.S. business and religious leaders in Columbus. Among its sponsors: Missionary-Educator Frank Laubach, who has taught millions of Asians and Africans to read through his international literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money...
...test of the Review Board's indictment has had a further demoralizing effect. One paragraph "notes" Vincent's praise of the Chinese communists "at a time when it was the declared and established policy of the United States to support Chiang Kai-Shek's government." Without clarification, the meaning of this statement is obscure and highly disturbing. Foreign Service officers wonder whether the Board is accusing Vincent of actively pursuing a contradictory policy, or whether "declared and established policy" means a party line with which private disagreement is suspect. As long as this is unexplained, any foreign officer must question...
Secretary Dulles has decided to judge the final appeal on the Vincent case himself. He thus has the opportunity to prove he merits the confidence of his Department. If the facts show Vincent acted consciously against U.S. interests, the public should hear them fully. If Dulles finds insufficient grounds for the dismissal, he should reinstate Vincent with an expression of full confidence. In either case, Dulles, who has enough prestige with Congress to defend his department as Acheson could not, must not let political pressure replace diplomatic competence in the Foreign Service. By showing up the Department's confidence...