Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shopping. New York's Lord & Taylor opened a Store Door Canteen staffed with 60 A.W.V.S. girls to aid service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5? a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves...
Best Christmas Gift...
...Great Escapist. When the story of General Giraud's escape from Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British...
Latest contribution to University coffers for the general support of the College was an unrestricted gift of $25 in cash recently received from a Chinese benefactor, Jan Quen of Jamaica Plain. Last week Quen, a Boston laundryman, walked into the office of Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation, to make a donation which included six boxes of Chinese ginger wrapped in a laundry bill...
...Yard and attended sermons on spots that corresponded to the Law School and Sever. Hollis became a symbol of Harvard's contribution to the effort of the new nation. When the men left, they left a sign, which has become a plate, recording the service rendered by Thomas Hollis' gift...