Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Congressmen, generals and admirals trooped to pay tribute to the Swamp Fox. Speeches lauding him resounded in the House. Thousands of congratulatory telegrams torrented into his office. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay came by to present him with an inscribed silver and wood plaque. The Navy held a reception for him, complete with a Marine parade. Occasion: he had reached a durability mark of 48 years, 8 months and 13 days as a member of the House, one day more than Texas' late Speaker Sam Rayburn. Vinson thereby attained a towering new distinction that grows...
...Texas' Chuck McKinley, 22, could be pardoned if his form looked a little rusty. But he cleared it with inches to spare. Then, with a wild whoop of joy, he hippety-hopped up to the royal box, where Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, handed him the silver trophy that goes to the winner of the All-England tennis championships - the world's most important tennis tournament...
...artist who 600 years ago made the altarpiece shown on the opposite page used durable materials, gilded silver, and enamel, as though he hoped that it would last to bedazzle thousands in, perhaps, the 20th century. It did; at its new permanent home in The Cloisters, the branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses medieval treasures, it conveys a sense of perfect and untarnished work from a hand long since turned to dust. But it came through only by luck: a large proportion of contemporaneous objects of art made of precious metal was later melted down...
...founded in what is now Budapest the first Hungarian convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis, and for the rest of her life, she showered it with gifts. Among these was a "small altarpiece for domestic use of silver gilt." Was this the same work now at The Cloisters? Hungarian scholars have always thought so. Cloisters Curator Margaret Freeman, who presumably knows (but will not tell) where the museum got it, feels ready to agree...
...like a grey squirrel's, helps in her inarticulate way; in one somberly lovely scene, she shyly lets a captain (Valentin Zubkov) pursue her into a forest of birches as the camera, darting on owl's wings, follows them through the receding halftones of black, grey and silver...