Word: yourkevitch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Vladimir Yourkevitch, 79, designer of France's famed Normandie, chief competitor of Britain's Queens for transatlantic honors in the 1930s, who in 1942 stood on a Manhattan pier as the ship burned and finally capsized, crying in vain to police holding him back that he alone had the knowledge to save the vessel; of cancer; in Yonkers...