Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive town where recently freed slaves were still living with their old masters by choice. Helena is by turns gay and sad, willful and full of remorse for her girlish sins. But one thing she is from beginning to end-a fine little writer, with a gift for precise observation that many an adult writer develops only after years of practice. She is now 77, wrote nothing else that got into print. But to the small shelf of notable writing by children she added a record of open-eyed youth that is a pleasure to read...
...land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose Bowl. If his gift of gab fails him, he will have to fall back on Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. Either stadium could pack in some of the biggest crowds on record (some 100,000 fans). With their brief foul lines (as short as 300 ft.) and distant stands, they can easily produce some...
Banker William Rose, who shared others' wealth last year in Ellenville, N.Y., reaped his reward last week. Having admitted gift-loans of $1,400,000 that collapsed his Home National Bank (TiME, Dec. 24, 1956), Rose, 51, heard a New York federal judge sentence him to five years in jail for misapplication of bank funds. President Joseph Di Candia of the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., who invested part of $958,000 in loans from Rose in wine, women and song, was sentenced to three years for his part in the deal. Mrs. Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schandler...
Parameter. In Santa Rosa, Calif., City Manager Sam B. Hood relaxed a city charter provision forbidding city employees to give Christmas presents to their superiors, instructed department heads that they could accept a gift "if you can eat it, drink it or smoke...
Bartok: Complete String Quartets (Parrenin Quartet; Westminster, 3 LPs). These six quartets were written over a period of 30 years, between 1908 and 1939. Even the earliest reveals a musician of size and depth. Impressively played, all reveal a dazzling ability to create new sounds about old torments, a gift for making strings do everything but talk. Sometimes, in the strange musical idiom Bartok invented, they seem to do even that...