Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesar's staying power or his grip on the loyalty of hard-core fans. More than that, by common show-business consent, he is one of the truly great clowns. Apart from sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made him a millionaire. It has brought him a $100,000 Long Island home with...
...state's Blue Laws have been called anachronistic and confining, but they have been upheld as recently as 1947. And, after all, even though you may not spend your Sunday hunting or collecting bills, the courts have specifically held that it is permissable to accept a dog as a gift...
...Manager of the Department of Athletics, said that the income would be used to "maintain the sport exactly as it is run at the present time. The income will help to run the sport, and no changes are planned at present," he said. Coach Edo Marion said that the gift would provide "great encouragement to the Harvard fencers and would be useful in such things as purchasing new equipment...
...Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping up the good fight against Communists and extremists. He sent him back to Amman with a large gift of money (according to one source...
After some negotiation with the U.S. Trust Company of New York, representing the benefactor, the donor agreed to extend the grant so that Heimler's major expenses will also be covered during his three years at the University. The gift was donated "on the condition that the Hungarian be chosen by a Kirkland House committee and reside in Kirkland House," Taylor said...