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...philanthropies. Mrs. John M. Bradley of Boston's aristocratic North Shore is concerned that the community will not continue its support for such laudable institutions as Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which she is chairwoman, and the Radcliffe College Fund (co-chairwoman). Says Mrs. K. Dun Gifford, a conservationist leader of Cambridge, Mass., society, "I'm not complaining about the family's self-enforced economies: I find all this very healthy. I'm learning budgetary disciplines I should have acquired ten years ago. We recycle the kids' clothes like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Recession and the Rich | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports sections...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme de la Cramer | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Measured by the most recent FBI figures, the national crime rate is soaring: up 6% in 1973, up 15% in the first three months of this year. In Orange, Calif, (pop. 83,900), the statistics reflect a refreshing change. City Manager Gifford Miller has a ready answer: Orange's pilot project of anticrime wage incentives for its 118-member police force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Wages of Sin Busting | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Gladys P. Gifford, a member of the task force, said last night after reading the GSA report, "It looks like it was taken verbatim from our letter...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Government Releases Library Report | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...another occasion, "I acquainted every attractive young woman within sight with handsome Frank Gifford. 'Look at him standing there, girls,' I would announce. 'A veritable Greek god. America's most famous football hero. The dream of the American working girl. The single most sexually dynamic man in the chronicle of the male sex. He's in room nine-fourteen...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: The Case Against Cosell | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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