Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aired his gift for soft phrase: "In the past," he said, "France was divided into two camps-Capital and Labor. But today we propose to install harmony and understanding between these groups. ..." His totalitarian meaning was clear. He was busy installing, drawing up plans for a corporative state in the Italian style...
...buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew to $35,000,000 before he quit in 1910, and the Rockefeller family and foundations have since given another $35,000,000. In 1906, having assured his university's permanence and presented John D. with his first balanced budget (surplus: $26), Harper died...
Last week Chicago's old grads delivered a verdict on their university: 15,000 of them, a third of all Chicago's alumni, chipped in for a $506,810 birthday gift to meet university deficits...
Died. Bishop Warren Akin Candler, 84, oratorical champion of Southern Methodism for over 50 years; brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler; in Atlanta. With a $1,000,000 gift from Brother Asa, he expanded little Emory College into a university, was its chancellor from 1914 to 1921. As active Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1898 to 1934, he was a leader in the fight against unification of his own church with Methodist Protestants and Northern Methodists, commented when unification won in 1939: "It's done now. I'm going to keep...
...jazz fan, on the other had, "Send Me Down," though it makes interesting reading, says little about music he doesn't understand himself better than it's explained in the book. Stylistically, Steig simply lucks the gift of a James T. Farrell for hard hitting narrative to keep the story continually absorbing. Then the plot is neither subtle nor even convincing at times: the idea of a boy in a melancholy mood bursting out involuntarily with weird minor chords, from deep down inside him of course, seems rather a lame attempt to show that this lad had the old jazz...