Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of Potemkin village where heaven knows what might be going on behind the lovely surface. What the buildings mainly lack for these men is a sense of force. By splitting the McGregor building down the middle with the glass gallery, says Yale's Art History Professor Vincent Scully Jr., Yamasaki has produced "a twittering aviary." "Just where you want strength," says Philip Johnson, "it isn't there." Snorts Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: "Yamasaki's as much an architect as I am Napoleon. He was an architect, but now he's nothing...
...family: the tabloid B.T., which has crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind. It smiles when it speaks...
Died. Paul Vincent Shields, 73, founder and senior partner of Wall Street's Shields & Co., financial confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the first brokers to recognize and demand a thorough reform of the freewheeling New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A sailor by avocation, Shields and his business partner-brother Cornelius helped make yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America...
...revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...supposed to know football but had never held a major head coaching job before. He seemed hardly the type to coach in a bumptious, boisterous north woods town. He was a city man. an Easterner born and bred in Brooklyn and fiercely proud of it. Until he was 20, Vincent Thomas Lombardi had never even been west of the Hudson...