Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles started his third week in Walter Reed Army Hospital thoughtfully reading the newspapers. The uncheering news: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey had joined Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington in demanding that he resign as Secretary of State. Suddenly, in walked the President of the U.S., three gift books under his arm, and on his face a look of thoughtful concern. From then on, Dulles' week began to look...
...last week, a burly, handsome, four-star general stepped forward to face General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Moments later, General Edwin W. Rawlings was sporting a new piece of hardware on his chest: a first oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left behind: a Rawlings-rejuvenated Air Materiel Command, the global, 200,000-man complex charged with...
Several qualities combine to make Bad Boy Behan's book a pleasant exception in the usually dreary field of schoolboy or prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...
Approximately six personal gifts totalling $20.5 million should furnish much of the needed money. Fund raisers expect both alumni and non-alumni sources to provide these gifts. "We hope we can uncover for Harvard the same kind of gift represented by Mr. Mellon's $15 million contribution to Yale," the public relations director said...
Medical School officials originally set a goal of $7.5 million for the building project. Miss Countway's gift will cover the cost of construction, but an endowment of $4 million on the new library will be sought...