Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurent's Under Secretary, Lester Pearson, had already done an able job as chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
...That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...
...Thou?" Most of the early writing on grace was done by Saint Paul and Saint Augustine.* Both had special reason to know what they were talking about. Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage. Each felt himself to have been saved by God through no merit or initiative of his own, indeed almost against his will. This, they said, was the grace of God: a divine gift bestowed not on the worthy-for all men are equally deserving of damnation-but to a few selected...
...Mexico-born Ralph Kiner, 24, had done for the seventh-place Pittsburgh Pirates what Hank Greenberg was hired-at a reported salary of nearly $100,000-to do. At 36, and in his first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned...
Lamb & Lectures. In a quarter-century as A.U.B.'s president, Bayard Dodge has done more than any other single American to win and keep good will for the U.S. in the Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard...