Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personal Underground. The Xavier Theater (700 seats) in lower Manhattan is one of two headquarters of a remarkable organization-the Xavier Symphony Society. The society's other headquarters: a Broadway hotel room from which Conductor Vincent La Selva dispatches telephoned entreaties to a kind of personal underground consisting of about 300 musicians. From this list he recruits the orchestra he needs for any of the Xavier Society's free concerts or opera productions. Since the musicians all play for the fun of it, La Selva is never quite sure how much of his orchestra will turn...
Losses. The Re operations often caused the stock to slump, and many a celebrity was reportedly victimized, including Restaurant Owner Toots Shor, Milwaukee Braves Manager Chuck Dressen and Vincent F. Albano Jr., Republican leader of Manhattan's East Side. Even Exchange President Edward T. McCormick turned up in the investigation as a onetime Re customer who spent $1,800 for over-the-counter stocks (which they were not licensed to sell...
...head of the retail of the Chamber of Commerce, Corcoran declared that the proposal "would help free parking spaces presently being abused." Supporting him were Harding U. Greene (Citizens Advisory Committee), Warren Dillon (Cambridge Civic Association), Fire Chief Vincent P. Galvin, and Ralph J. Dunphy, Commissioner of Public Works...
During the morning session, Vincent W. Hartnett, author of several important TV black lists, testified that he had furnished the Committee with names and information about entertainers allegedly connected with Communist activities...
This book is written in blurbese, the language of record jackets, movie previews of coming attractions, and fictionalized biographies. Blurbese is prose with a glandular condition, but it often pays better than literature, as Author Irving Stone found out with such bestsellers as Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), The President's Lady (Rachel Jackson) and Love Is Eternal (Mary Todd Lincoln). In the present fictionalized life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Author Stone has transcended himself; The Agony and the Ecstasy raises blurbese to blurbissimo...