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...past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder, the late Max Gordon, asked the professor whether he thought the place would last 60 years, Corey replied, "It's a small club...
Intimacy, a lack of pretense and an openness to the freshest, smartest talent were the Vanguard's hallmarks from the beginning. Gordon, a Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
...TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff, can receive revelations directly from God.) Ostling adds that Hunter's successor, senior apostle Gordon Hinckley, 84, has actually been directing church affairs for several years...
...Harvard men's and women's rowing teams competed in the Indoor World Rowing Championships held Sunday at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center and several Crimson rowers placed highly in the collegiate and international competitions...
Despite Trainor and Gordon's accusations, Lieutenant General Thomas Kelly, Plans and Operations Officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, said the United States secured a major victory in the Gulf...