Word: vincente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lanny Budd, like Vincent Sheean and John Gunther, meets all the great people of the world; he races about the continent of Europe on secret missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris...
From the Pierre, the A.P.'s Vincent O'Mahoney saw the photographers come to life. He dashed out, with the Daily News's Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...
Born. To Edward Vincent ("Eddie") Bracken, 34, cinecomic (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), and Connie Nickerson Bracken, 34, onetime Broadway actress: their fourth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Kathleen. Weight...
Yacht for Sale. The famed 1,969-ton luxury yacht Nourmahal-built at Germany's Krupp yards for Vincent Astor, turned over to the Coast Guard in 1941 for submarine patrol service-was up for sale to the highest bidder...
...Catholic Church had faced such laws before (in Canada and Mexico) and knew just what to do. Rather than allow schools to close for lack of teachers, said Bishop Vincent J. Ryan of Bismarck last week, nuns would be told to wear 'respectable secular dress. Some of the law's sponsors solicited support [by claiming] that it would keep Catholic sisters from teaching . . . [but] no law can, under the protection of our Constitution, discriminate against any teacher on account of religious membership or belief...