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Divorced. Vincent Price, 37, Broadway leading man (Victoria Regina, Angel Street) turned silky cinemenace (Laura, The Long Night); by Edith Barrett Williams Price, fortyish, retired stage actress; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...
...scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music, but turned it down to take a piano-playing job in Irving Berlin's publishing house. "I began running into people like Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans and the Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...
Died. Laurence Vincent Benet, 85, West Point-born manufacturer of the French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
Hoving was expanding by shrewd use of his capital-$2.6 million from such bigwig friends as Vincent Astor and CBS's William S. Paley, and a $12 million stock issue. He had paid $10.5 million for Bonwit Teller, Inc., then sold the store's buildings to the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $6.3 million and rented them back for $320,000 a year. He put some of that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic...