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...strategy meeting, announced their willingness to form a government. As the nation's largest party, they proposed a coalition Cabinet under their burly Secretary General Maurice Thorez, who spent most of the war years comfortably in Moscow. A more likely candidate of the Left coalition was oracular Socialist Vincent Auriol, foreign-affairs expert and a middleman in his party's divided house...
John Jacob Astor, grandson of Mrs. William Astor, grande dame of the original Four Hundred, failed to make the grade. But ex-Wife Ellen Tuck French Astor made it, so did half-brother Vincent...
Divorced. James Vincent Sheean, 46, best-selling journalistic bird of passage (Personal History, Not Peace But A Sword) ; by beauteous Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 31, youngest daughter of oldtime actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson; after ten years of marriage, two daughters; in Reno...
...Other delegates: Agriculture Minister James Gardiner; Secretary of State Paul Martin; Hume Wrong, Under Secretary in the External Affairs Department; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom...
Does DDT upset the balance of nature? Yes, but that's nothing to be alarmed about, says one of Britain's foremost authorities on insect physiology. The authority, who has the nervous name of Dr. Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, writing in the December Atlantic Monthly, took the long, calm view: chemicals have upset nature's balance before and DDT is merely the latest and most violent. The laws of nature have never been abrogated and there is no reason to believe that DDT can do it. Points and examples...