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President Vincent Auriol, who had to find a man who would attempt to form a new cabinet, was for the moment more interested in picking a winner for the Grand Prix, France's most fashionable horse race. On Sunday morning he interviewed a dozen political leaders, then hurried to the Longchamp race track with the plaintive explanation: "Ever since I took office I have been prevented from attending the race. This time I'm going to see my favorite Vieux Memoir run. I have bet some money on Vieux Manoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On a Spree | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Last week at Paris' Orly Airfield, some 500,000 spectators peered into blue skies and clutched their ears as U.S. and British jet fighters screeched past in France's National Air Fete. President of the Republic Vincent Auriol sat pleasantly and peacefully in his box, a study in pearl grey. Then, suddenly, a little man dressed all in white, wearing a white baseball cap and carrying two paddles walked on to the field. It was Choreographer Lifar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet -for Helicopters | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...third new trustee is Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, of Dover, also a Radcliffe graduate. She has worked in the Research Laboratory of the Harvard School of Public Health and has been active in work on cancer in the Vincent Memorial Hospital Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Chooses Three Bostonians As New Trustees | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

...undergraduates and two graduate students, chosen by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will receive awards this Friday at 12:30 p.m., in the Faculty Room. To Vincent E. Starsinger '50 will go the James Gordon Bennet Prize; to Alfred Arnovitz '51, the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize; to Stephen M. Schwebel '50, the Chase Prize; to Richard F. Pedersen, 3G, the Sumner Prize; and to Carl E. Schorske, candidate for PhD. this June, the Toppan Prize. These awards, given for theses, consist of incomes from invested funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Students Will Get Awards Friday | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

...Vincent's Seminary and Mary's Central Shrine in Germantown, Pa., everyone bustled through preparations for this week's big celebration. Philadelphia's Cardinal Archbishop Dougherty himself was to be on hand; there would be more than a dozen bishops and scores of priests to celebrate a golden jubilee Mass in honor of the Rev. Joseph A. Skelly's 50th year as a priest and the 35th anniversary of the organization he founded. Only one man looked forward to the occasion "with much unpleasantness." Brushing the cigar ashes off his black suit, spry, 76-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fifty Million Medals | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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