Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to discuss Fanny in anything but theatrical terms. Filmed in 1932 from Pagnol's play, which was produced the winter before in Paris, Fanny subordinates everything technical to the story, and employs no particularly startling use of camera or sound. Vincent Scotto's music is unobtrusive and appropriate. The film's beauty rests in the simplicity of its plot, and in its sensitive character sketches...
Collections of sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right...
...death of famed Yachtsman Vincent Astor in 1959 put a large question mark over the future of Newsweek magazine. In his will Astor left his controlling 60% of Newsweek's stock-177,200 shares-to the Vincent Astor Foundation, a charitable trust that he established in 1948. Since then, the rumor that Newsweek is for sale has cropped up with a persistence that has defeated the magazine's continued efforts to deny it. Last week, confronted with fresh reports, Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 65, said that a group of colleagues were trying...
...assessed for tax purposes at $4,857,052-were made public, expanding Newspaper Publisher Samuel Newhouse (who has paid cash for most of his 14 dailies) offered to buy the Astor shares for considerably more than market value. Newhouse's offer was rejected, reportedly on the insistence of Vincent Astor's widow, Brooke Russell Marshall Astor, a member of both the Newsweek and Foundation boards. The Meredith Publishing Co. of Des Moines (Better Homes & Gardens) also made an approach, but after preliminary negotiations, withdrew without making an offer...
...directors are aware, the Astor Foundation's business is charity, not magazine publishing, and Newsweek is not an investment that can be left to manage itself. Vincent Astor left Newsweek in far better shape than he found it. When he got control in 1937, the magazine had reached a circulation of 250,000, but had cost its original investors $2,250,000 in four years and was dying of malnutrition; today it has a U.S. circulation of more than 1,400,000; and last year, on an estimated total of $30 million, it netted something under...