William Kingston Vickery (16 March 1851 – 25 March 1925) was an Irish-American picture dealer who founded the San Francisco interior design firm and art gallery of Vickery, Atkins & Torrey.
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Bond Street Station Upgrade (UK; detailed design 2010-12) - Halcrow is part of the design team, along with consultants Atkins appointed by Costain Laing O'Rourke Joint Venture for the upgrading of the existing Bond Street Station in Central London
From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at Bell Laboratories with Walter Shewhart, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. Torrey.
One of Vickery's first jobs was the investigation of the SS Morro Castle disaster.
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Due to the shortage, Vickery hired Henry J. Kaiser as one his shipbuilding experts, despite many advising against it.
He and his wife have collectively held key roles in the Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Business Committee for the Arts, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Citizens Council, Dallas Assembly, Vickery Meadow Learning Center, Friends of WRR, Science Place, and Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
Mack Vickery (June 8, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was a musician, songwriter, and inductee in the Hillbilly Hall of Fame and Alabama Music Hall of Fame, whose songs have been recorded by artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, George Thorogood, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Hank Williams Jr., George Jones and many other notable artists.
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Vickery’s biggest hit as a writer was “The Fireman”, recorded by George Strait, which reached number 5 in 1985, while his work with Jerry Lee Lewis brought him the most attention.
In 1902–1903, he preached in nearly every part of the English-speaking world and with song leader Charles McCallon Alexander conducted revival services in Great Britain from 1903 to 1905.
By 1929, with the help of New Jersey state park officials a 43-mile (69 km) section from the Delaware River to High Point along the Kittatinny Ridge was completed.
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In the early 1920s Torrey developed a weekly outdoor column for the Post, called the Long Brown Path which was named for a line in Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road.
It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations (not all of whom were Independent Baptist), including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.
Vickery cites as his main influences the “old style” of Brian Glanville, whose “international consciousness” always appealed, as well as the “social consciousness” of The Sunday Times’ Hugh McIlvanney.
Vickery Turner (3 April 1945 in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey – 4 April 2006) was a British actress, playwright, author and stage director.
Virginia Healey was born in Chicago to Irish Catholic parents, who however, did not seem to mind their daughter attending services at Moody Church, then pastored by R. A. Torrey, an associate of evangelist Dwight L. Moody.