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Word: vincents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRENCH DOLL by Vincent McConnor. 250 pages. Hill & Wang. $3.95. In this one the agent works for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. He starts off impersonating an American pilot who has been dead some 20 years but who sold an important flight chart to the Nazis in the last days of World War II. Bullets and bodies start falling around him the minute he assumes the disguise. This book is in the older tradition of shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spies & Eyes | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...however, was the 4-1 betting favorite over the likes of four-time Champion Arnold Palmer (6-1) and South Africa's Gary Player (8-1), who had worked himself into a fine frenzy for the Masters by lifting weights, eating wheat germ, and boning up on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. Pealed Player: "I'm playing so well I can't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Smiling Jack | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Artist on the Campus | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Died. Vincent Claude Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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