Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stroke. For Thannhauser, opening a gallery in Manhattan was a third start for the family business. His father, Heinrich, had given the Blue Rider group its first exhibition in his Munich gallery in 1911, followed it up a year later with one of the first comprehensive Picasso exhibitions and assured the gallery's fame. With the advent of the Nazis, the family had been forced to flee to Paris and begin again. But of the second Thannhauser collection in Paris, only a few bundled-up paintings, including a rare 1905 Picasso, escaped Nazi confiscation. They were enough to spark...
...Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
...short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh...
Even though seven of eight men --including stroke Geoff Picard--are back from last year's boat, and even though that boat was the best collegiate boat in the country, Saturday's performance was almost too good to be true...
...that wouldn't have been enough. Sporting a floppy white hat for which he had to shell out $6.50 at the pro shop ("it would sell for $3 anyplace else"), chatting casually with spectators lining the fairways, Nicklaus fired a last-round 69 that gave him a nine-stroke victory worth $20,000 and a 72-hole total of 271-three strokes better than Ben Hogan's 1953 Masters record...