Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When she was done coiling into a figure-eight windup and uncoiling curves, change-ups and fastballs, Bertha Ragan, 35, had again showed she was the greatest pitcher in women's softball by throwing four shutouts (including one no-hitter) to lead her Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn, to their second successive championship on their home field in the 26th World Softball tournament...
...five days the reporters were left alone to play on the beach, in nightclubs, on neighboring islands, but then came the grim moment when they had to sit through a partial screening of one Adventure episode. It was quickly apparent that all the shooting had been done around Hollywood, not Hawaii. Hero Gardner McKay, who has had more advance publicity than most established stars, proved himself a performer with all the animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy...
...Soviet] Academy of Sciences' Astronomical Council, and he has often been spokesman for Russian space scientists. In recognition of his apparent stature, this year's London meeting of the I.A.F. elected Sedov its president. Said a British delegate dryly: "We felt that the Soviets had done a lot of work in this field and should be recognized...
Moore pauses when talking about sculpture, searching for words as if for chisels. "If an artist tries consciously to do something to others," he says, "it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it."To do this, he has to stretch his own first. When he succeeds, an artist enriches that side of life that makes us different from animals. You don't know how it's done, yet it's not an accident...
...introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder he has done wonderfully well at finding money for himself. Worth more than $35 million, he has five cars, including a chauffered Rolls-Royce equipped with radiotelephone, a penthouse in Manhattan, a 13-acre country house at Amagansett, N.Y., his own game preserve and a $200,000 yacht...