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...Vincent F. Leahy...
Died. Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (John Brown's Body) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A more popular poet than either his brother William Rose or his sister Laura, he was also a deft fiction writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This...
Left. By the late Maxine Elliott, famed stage beauty: an estate appraised at $1,140,065 net; the bulk of it to her sister, Lady Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, the rest to four nieces (including Mrs. Vincent Sheean), one maid...
That this depressing story remains above-average entertainment is mainly due to incisive writing (by Scenarists Daniel Fuchs and Peter Viertel), and to direction by Vincent Sherman that results in honest, intelligent acting by an excellent cast. Jack Carson's job as a simpleminded, big-hearted hoofer is masterly; Dennis
Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington...