Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their friends and relations be TIME-readers, too. For them, giving a subscription to TIME as a present at Christmas has long been the surest and most thoughtful way of sharing their own enjoyment of TIME-and of producing reactions like the following one, which came in with a gift order from an Oakland, California reader...
...TIME first came to me as a Christmas gift because one of my friends thought I was missing something...
...have even tried to share TIME with their enemies. In this connection, I am thinking particularly of the war years and of an elderly gentleman named Thorwald Gustaffsen, a citizen of Stockholm, who, from 1936 until the war closed in on him in 1942, regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan...
Another reader, a thrifty Iowa farmer's wife, liked to give TIME to as many friends as possible. Her way of paying for these gift subscriptions was to choose one of her sows which was in a family way and, when the sow littered, to sell its offspring and send the money to us with a list of the friends she wanted TIME sent...
Today Aydelotte's recently-appointed successor, atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, heads up an endeavor equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner...