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...Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul) to succeed him as governor. Kuchel, a slight, friendly man, is one of the governor's closest political and personal friends, received his present post six years ago through Warren's largess, and has not only gone down the line politically for his benefactor, but has done an outstanding job as bursar of California's billion-dollar budget. Last week, however, the governor switched his protege to a new track, appointed him to the U.S. Senate to succeed Vice President-elect Richard Nixon...
...every home the King left a small sum of money. One old seamstress refused to accept her envelope, saying, "There are people worse off than I, monsieur." When the abbe told her the identity of her benefactor, she accepted. One man refused, saying, "I work for my living." It was night when Abbé Froidure drove the King back to Laeken Palace. Said Baudouin: "It's scandalous that people are living in such conditions." To Health Minister de Taeye he said: "Something must be done about it." Asked next day exactly what he was going to do about...
...mother supported the three daughters by working as a practical nurse. But the love of literature flourished on empty stomachs. When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need...
John S. Dickey, President of Dartmouth College, announced yesterday that Dartmouth has received a donation of one million dollars from an anonymous benefactor...
They glanced at the package: it was addressed to Chancellor Adenauer at Bonn. When the boys noticed that their benefactor, instead of running for a train, was still following them, their suspicions solidified. At the first street corner, they showed their package to a streetcar supervisor standing by. The supervisor turned it over to some policemen in a prowl-car. The cops put in a call to Fireman Karl Reichert, explosives expert...