Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil Raises Hell. The opera, Lucas Foss's Griffelkin, with libretto by Alistair Reid, was offered by the NBC Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m.). Griffelkin is a little devil whose tenth-birthday gift is to be sent up to earth to raise a little hell. When he does a good deed, he is banished forever to earth, where he happily becomes, minus tail and horns, a normal small boy. What with a singing letter-box and dancing lions, Griffelkin was in the old operatic tradition. But the music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most...
After first offering money to Angell in September of 1926, Harkness set July 1, 1928, as a deadline for Yale's acceptance of the gift. The president felt bound not to tell anyone of the sure source of money, and, as a result, no decision was reached by that date...
Behind and necessary to all of Yale's projects, of course, is money. During the past two years, Yale has put almost $6,000,000 in construction and remodeling, the highest amount spent for this purpose since the early 30's. Of this, $4,991,000 was from gifts of alumni, friends, and two foundations. These figures do not include the $2,500,000 gift of alumnus John Hay Whitney, New York investor, toward the purchase of the New Haven school property...
...million gift for food...
...million gift of surplus war equipment and property...