Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taste" displayed 24 of the best paintings owned by Manhattan Industrialist Stephen Carlton Clark (Singer sewing machines), longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. Unlike many private collections, which tend to second-rate paintings by first-rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing St. Andrew, done in contrasting hues of grey, blue...
...feet. In 1911, searching for a man to take charge of a tough dock-construction job. he hired an engineering prodigy, who. at 24, had supervised the building of four railroad tunnels under the Hudson River. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each man contributed special gifts: hard-driving Upson gave off engineering ideas like sparks from a busy grindstone. He pioneered in the development of prestressed concrete pile, i.e.., using steel wire under tension to make concrete much stronger. Shy, quiet-voiced...
Died. Walter James Vincent ("Rabbit") Maranville, 61, one of U.S. baseball's crack major-league infielders for more than two decades (1912-35); of a heart attack; in New York City (see SPORT...
...Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more," said Walter James Vincent ("Rabbit") Maranville, in a mood of gentle nostalgia after last year's World Series had been stowed away in the record books. "I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh...
Double Jeopardy. In Quebec, a month after her husband was locked up for threatening her with an ax, Mrs. Armand Beland asked a city judge to send him home, added: "Would it be possible to have the ax back? The St. Vincent de Paul Society has given us some wood and we have no ax to split...