Word: gifted
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Darrach's gift for words may be traced to a lineage of hereditary Scottish bards and minor English writers. Stern custodian of this heritage has been his maternal grandmother Alice Dunbar, now over 80. For grandmother Dunbar, he wrote romantic prose until he was eight, when he went off to Philadelphia's old St. Peter's (Episcopal) Choir School to sing as a boy soprano and play football in the school's historic cemetery. "I remember," he says, "catching a forward pass on Stephen Decatur's grave." At West Philadelphia High, Darrach began to compose...
...most unwanted gift to Italy, onetime Manhattan Vice Czar Lucky Luciano, 57, whose 9½-year sojourn in New York pens crowned his career as a top merchandiser of dope and prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples, where Italy's cops have him sequestered. Lucky's new racket, however, is apparently legitimate; he will soon open a clinical supply store, purveying such items as stethoscopes and bedpans to Neapolitan doctors and hospitals...
...into a ragtime climax followed by a pastoral section that sounded as if it should be called Alleghennian Autumn. The end, surprisingly, was an old-fashioned rumba. The total effect was rich, but a bit too facile. Here and there were fascinating details, for Composer Harris has a great gift for invention, but somehow the whole added up to less than the sum of its parts. The music seemed to relate to a movie story rather than to reality...
...Great Human Host." After breakfast, which included the second cup of coffee the President has taken since his heart attack, one of his aides brought word of official gifts: from the White House staff, flowering plants and shrubs; from the Cabinet, quinces; from the 48 state organizations of the Republican Party, Norway spruces-all to be planted along the driveway of the President's farm at Gettysburg, Pa. "We . . . are joined with a great human host in wishing you new health, long happiness," read the birthday message from the Cabinet. The President got a great belt of laughter...
...Gift of the week: $2,500,000 from Financier John Hay Whitney, '26, to help Yale buy up the three nearby New Haven high schools, in place of which the university hopes one day to have buildings of its own. With $3,000,000 from Yale, New Haven plans to put up two new high schools in the city...