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...concert halls in the U.S. have tended to be either lavishly restored movie $ palaces, such as Powell Hall in St. Louis and the Paramount Theater in Oakland, or gleaming, high-tech edifices like Davies Hall in San Francisco and Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. Last week in St. Paul, Architect Benjamin Thompson, the designer of Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, unveiled a stunning combination: the Ordway Music Theater, a $45 million jewel overlooking the Mississippi that is one of the handsomest public spaces for music in America...
...thus became the fourth American League pitcher to win both awards. Rollie Fingers of Milwaukee did it in 1981, Oakland's Vida Blue won both in 1971, and Denny McLain of Detroit, the last Tiger MVP, swept the awards...
DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
Sharla Vohs Oakland, Calif...
...rookie skipper in 1967, Padres Manager Dick Williams directed the Boston Red Sox from ninth to first, and in the '70s the Oakland A's fought and flourished under him. Williams provoked a particularly ugly brawl this year in Atlanta. Like Chicago, San Diego employs a ruthless trader, General Manager Jack McKeon, whose name should be listed highest in the credits. Not all of the Padres' names are recognizable, though some deserve recognition, for instance Reserve Catcher Doug Gwosdz (pronounced Goosh), whose perfect nickname, Eye Chart, revives that poetic baseball art. McKeon has a sense of poetry...