Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hybrid electric sitar and an electric bazouki, both designed for the Dan-electro Corp. by Guitarist Vincent Bell and clearly aimed at capitalizing on the Indian music fad that is sweeping across the U.S. pop scene. Bell's sitar is really an ordinary six-string guitar with a special bridge and a set of twelve sympathetically vibrating strings to reproduce the sitar's characteristic "buzzy" sound and echoing overtones; the instrument can also be fingered and chorded just like a guitar...
...expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...
...fours-with-cox which lost in the Navy Cup competition included cox Brian Sullivan, Gib Vincent, Mike Ridedski, and Roger Cheever. They lost to the Vesper, NYAC, and Cornell oarsmen...
PAMELA A. VINCENT Randolph, Mass...
Jumping the Traffic. No matter how high the quality of the editorial product, costs must be kept down, the work force reduced, union restrictions eliminated, production fully automated. "One thing you've got to have is a modern plant," says Vincent Manno, the New York newspaper broker who brought Hearst, Howard and Whitney together for the ill-fated W.J.T. merger. "You can't spend less than $25 million and have the kind of plant necessary to put out a paper in the city of New York. A fully automated plant contemplates that the unions would permit...