Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge Fire Chief Vincent F. Galvine called it the biggest and potentially the most dangerous fire he had seen in 23 years of experience, but said that damage was small in financial terms. Formerly used for meat packing, the building had been scheduled for demolition...
...will tell wonderfully funny, dirty stories in a bar and make everybody happy and not a bit ashamed of themselves until the moment comes when he lowers his voice an unctuous octave and reads from a little card on which is printed an inspirational message by, say, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The curious effect is to make religion seem a dubious, off-color business, and this is just the effect produced by Henry Miller's divagations into theology that punctuate the boisterously bawdy anecdotes in Black Spring...
...problem since Caplin with his little guillotine." The Colony has cut ten men from its 100-man staff; Maud Chez Elle has cut its staff from 40 to 34 to help compensate for a close to 50% drop in business. "If business doesn't pick up soon," says Vincent Sardi Jr.. owner of Manhattan's Sardi's and Sardi's East, "all of us will be in real trouble...
Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
...Emmitsburg,, Md. There she started what was, in effect, the first Catholic parochial school in the U.S. By the time she died, of tuberculosis, in 1821, her tiny order had expanded to ten houses. In 1850, it united with the Daughters of Charity, founded by France's St. Vincent de Paul...