Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Christmas there will probably be quite a few friends and relations you will want to remember with a gift of TIME...
Every Christmas for 23 years now TIME readers have been sharing their own discovery of TIME with their friends via gift subscriptions. And this year, as usual, a great many readers have already asked us to start gift subscriptions on the way to their friends and relations...
...grateful for these early gift orders-especially because entering so many subscriptions in so few weeks poses a very real problem for our Chicago subscription fulfillment office. This Christmas, for example, we have had to more than double our subscription staff to handle the rush of orders that will reach us only a little later in the season. And we would like, of course, to give your order expert and unhurried attention...
...Balzac novel with people, city noises, brawling and lovemaking (see BOOKS). The setting, too, is Balzacian: the sprawling plot tries to keep up with half a dozen leading characters as they move through 1848 Paris. But the film's makers, using their own script, lacked Balzac's gift for tying up dangling ends and giving a finished story some look of significance...
...University's most distant holding in the Western Hemisphere, the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba, was established in 1900 as the result of a gift from Edwin F. Atkins, owner of large estates in Cuba, who amassed a fortune as a sugar planter. Soledad, only Botanical Garden in tropical America not government supported, is under the direction of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkin, who returns to Cambridge four months each Fall to give a course in tropical Botany. Extensive research is conducted in economic Botany, the year around Cuban climate being particularly adapted to such experiments since...