He wasn’t a member of the Sheepshead Bay seafood dynasty, beloved of The Girl of My Dreams. How often has she told me of her childhood feasts, standing in the steamy messhall of the above-referred-to dynasts, coat over arms, waiting for the satiated to vacate a table and let her and her family at the goodies. And what meals they were, she says. They improve with the passage of time. But gone, alas, like our youth, too soon.  

No, Vic Lundy is the subject of a panegyric from the GSA, in its pre-political days. Vic, it happens, aside from a CIB and a Purple Heart to his credit, is the architect who designed The Glasshouse at 400 Second Street, NW, and brought the job in on time and on budget; for which he should have gotten at least two more gongs beside the Medal of Freedom Gerry Ford gave him.

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