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Ceremonies will open tomorrow evening with a convocation featuring a choral and brass ensemble at Memorial Church...
...Vincent is not especially popular either, with owners or fans. This year, infuriated that three New York Yankees had testified to an arbitrator on behalf of their suspended teammate Steve Howe, Vincent huffily chastised the Yankee brass for disloyalty (though he later apologized). He peremptorily ordained that the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would shift to the National League's Western Division, while the Reds and Atlanta Braves would move east. When the Cubs took their protest to court, the commissioner's office dithered in devising the 1993 schedule. (Early last week Vincent relented, saying that the teams would...
When he became a dirt farmer, his relatives never saw him in bib overalls. One recalled him under a Panama hat in a wagon. And in the barn was a 1911 Stafford convertible ("a rich man's car") with a brass-framed windshield and huge Prestolite lamps. In that grand machine, after plowing, he burned up the road back to Independence, where his indulgences with his gang ran to picnics, theater and poetry. Today's Democrats should be cautious when putting their arms around Harry. He disliked jazz, modern art and most liberals. The mind boggles contemplating what he would...
Nowhere is the power of these tools more palpable than at Kodak's Center for Creative Imaging, a converted brass foundry in Camden, Maine. Since the center opened last year under the direction of Ray DeMoulin, a 38-year Kodak veteran, more than 2,000 designers, illustrators, graphic artists and professional photographers have made the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the new technology. Among those who have come to play at the center's 90 (mostly Macintosh) workstations are photographer Richard Avedon, graphic designer Milton Glaser and illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. (It was here that photographer Gregory Heisler created...
Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...