Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birney Crum is the most esteemed of Allentown's 96,904 citizens. When his boys copped the Pennsylvania state basketball championship two years ago, the city gave him a $1,000 war bond and a watch. His gift for repeating last year...
...gift provides $2 million for equipment and an $8 million addition to the $12 million endowment-enough to make the college almost selfsupporting. For Chinese doctors, struggling against almost hopeless odds to check disease among China's war-weakened people, the reopening of the college will be a galvanizing shot...
Perennially brickbatted Sculptor Epstein got another lump on the head-this time from the famed Tate Gallery (which owns six of his sculptures). The gallery trustees-all except Sculptor Henry Moore -voted to refuse a sculpture which had been offered as a gift: Epstein's Lucifer, which he considers one of his major works. "The trustees," Sculptor Epstein thereupon told the world, "are a lot of nincompoops-except Moore." He explained further: "There have always been some people who do nothing and are against those...
...presidential motorcade whisked east to Independence, 22 miles away, Harry Truman had only one worry. He was afraid the turkey might have got cold. It hadn't. Piping hot, the bird was a plump 25-pounder, the gift of West Point Cadet Jack Capps, of Liberty, Mo., a grateful Truman appointee who had also supplied the President last year...
Secretary of State Byrnes had promised to help Germans win their way back to a decent place among the nations. In the guise of a small Christmas gift, the U.S. again acted on his promise. On Christmas Eve, in Frankfurt's icy-cold Römerberg Square, where once German emperors were crowned, General Joseph T. McNarney, European Theater Commander, announced an amnesty for 800,000 "lesser" Nazis. Purpose: to "encourage those who come under its terms to seek the ways of democracy...