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...Packard's famed Executive Vice President J. G. Vincent, 70, who designed the first U.S. twelve-cylinder auto engine and was co-designer of World War I's Liberty engine, will retire at year's end. To replace Vincent, directors picked LeRoy Spencer, 57, general manager of Packard's California distributing company and an auto salesman since 1912. Spencer was already regarded as a likely choice for president when & if Hugh Ferry steps out (TIME...
...hottest days of the summer, a parade of about 5,000-military and naval units, city employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
Impy's Ideas. As for the mayoralty, the bosses' choice was New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora. But rangy, smiling Vincent Impellitteri ("Impy" to tabloid headline writers), who will serve in the interim as acting mayor, had other ideas. Impellitteri wanted his temporary lease to the mayor's mansion extended for another four years...
Admirers of Vincent Van Gogh got a tantalizing glimpse this week of an all-but-unknown painting by the great Dutchman. New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer, who lives in Croton, N.Y., had run across it one evening in the living room of a neighbor. The neighbor insisted on anonymity, but agreed to let Critic Genauer print a black & white reproduction in her Sunday column...
...weather entertainment, Tea for Two is at its best when concentrating on the old tunes of Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin and Roger Wolfe Kahn...