Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself in the place of the Dalai Lama? Imagine the storm and thunder that would have burst upon the world from the hills of Mussoorie!" Remembering the fiery young Nehru...
Probably the best female impersonator since vaudeville's late famed Julien Eltinge, egg-bald T. C. Jones, 39, has been working at his special skill ever since 1946, after he had abandoned study for the ministry, done a hitch in the Navy, and finally crashed Broadway. He earned critical raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima...
...work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...
...puts in twelve hours a day at the job of keeping tabs on every aspect of his business. He gets up at 5 or 6 a.m., jots down ideas and reads newspapers and magazines before arriving at the office around 8. He has half a day's work done before most of his executives come in, sometimes embarrasses them by assuming that everyone keeps his hours and calling their offices before they arrive. He divides his time between his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and Pittsburgh (where his living quarters are right in the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building...
...Hemingway: "'You were all right in there. How did you know what you'd find? There might have been a rat . . .' 'It was nothing,' the Colonel shrugged, doing it well, a thing not really usually done well at all . . . We sat with our brandies, keeping talking about style...