Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month by month choices (some of which appear on this page with their illustrations) make up the calendar-card we are sending this year to people who will receive gift subscriptions to TIME. Perhaps they will remind you of favorite TIME stories of years past-just as this Christmas issue of TIME, with its account of how Americans and others are moving into the Christmas of 1949, may recall our Christmas stories of other years...
...walls and towers, square miles and boulevards, throngs of men and women or thunderous salutes from artillery. Not the place, or the grandeur, but the honest, open heart of those who will receive Him, can mark the birth and the rule of this redeeming Savior, God's gift to the world...
...fifth postwar Christmas found the free world steadily recovering, but it was a recovery that still depended on the U.S. Santa Claus. More perhaps than the larger bounties of Marshall Plan aid, and of loans negotiated by diplomats and bankers, it was the gift parcel from America which had become a sign of the world's continuing need, and a symbol of American generosity...
...Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from...
Serge Koussevitzky had retired as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but not as a friend of music. Last week the Library of Congress received a gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg...