Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most thoroughgoing biography of Puccini, to date, is that of Austrian Critic Richard Specht, which appeared in an English translation five years ago (Alfred Knopf). To it was added last week a genial book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...
...City jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...
...Edmund W. Sinnott Jr. '38, Ralph I. Smith '38. Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship, Allen R. Hyde 2G. Ozias Goodwin memorial fellowship, Harvey S. Perloff 2G. William Watson Goodwin, fellowships to: Albert H. Travis 2G, Frederic Peachy 2G. Harris fellowship, Lawrence W. Newton, University of Wichita. Priscilla Clark Hodges scholarship, Vincent G. Dethier 2G. Albert and Anna Howard fellowship, John R. Grant 2G. John Thornton Kirkland fellowship, Baranby C. Keeney 2G. Henry Lee memorial fellowship, Daniel C. Vandermeulen...
...defendants by Arthur Atwood Ballantine, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, now Continental's trustee under 77B. Charging a conspiracy to capture several investment trusts partly and indirectly bought with their own assets, Trustee Ballantine asked an accounting and return of $3,300,000 to Continental. Defendants included Vincent E. Ferretti, George H. Clayton, Phillip A. Frear, S. Leo Solomont, James A. Frear, George J. Mitchell Jr., George H. Clayton Jr., Thomas W. Morris, Ralph H. Robb, Fred A. Ross, Chester A. Dunham, Paine, Webber & Co., brokers; J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.; four principal ex-stockholders of Reynolds Investing...
...drew 924 members to the polls, a record. Since the reform slate was unopposed, those die-hards who wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields & Co. For this the reason was clear: Broker Shields, more than any other Wall Streeter, is responsible for the Exchange's change of front...