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...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
Fund raisers soon learn that not all men respond to all appeals: dollars come only for what is dear to the donor. Harvard fund raisers have not yet learned the obvious lesson, and do not appeal to every taste and every shade of opinion...
...Japanese see nothing impolite about slurping soup or noisily blowing the nose or clearing the throat; the booklet warns that fastidious Westerners will recoil. There is a great difference in giftgiving: "Foreigners normally open gifts on the spot and then thank the donor. Japanese, however, thank the giver and then take away the unwrapped gift, and nobody else sees it.'' The booklet advises against mixing "Eastern and Western customs'' by simultaneously bowing and shaking hands "because it is ungraceful...
When Kurashov had finished, Sihanouk rose with a bland smile to thank the Rus sians for their generous gift. Then, still smiling, he added pointedly: "Cambodia is prepared to accept aid from any nation. But this does not give the donor the right to meddle in our affairs." Then, ignoring all the fine new hospital facilities before him, Prince Sihanouk set off for Paris-for medical treatment...
Died. Dr. G. (for George) Canby Robinson, 81, medical administrator and a pioneer in psychosomatic medicine, director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association from 1928 to 1935, and head of the World War II American Red Cross Blood Donor Service which raised 13 million pints of plasma for the armed forces; after a long illness; in Greenport...