Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long. As soon as he could read, he had begun to devour history, and one day he left his proper job for the happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that it is from Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini...
...Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...visit to a ranch, Colombia's cattle-raising President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla enthusiastically admired his host's prize bulls, offered to buy one. "Your Excellency," said the rancher, "I cannot accept money from the President. I will give you a bull as a gift." Replied Rojas, squaring his shoulders: "As President, I cannot accept a gift...
...Gift of Gab. Time was when pro ballplayers were "tobacco-chewing rowdies" who ran out their brief careers with little to show for their days on the diamond. Of the nine regulars on the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, first big-league team of all, only Shortstop George Wright went on to become a successful businessman (Wright & Ditson, sporting goods). The rest stayed only a pitch or two ahead of the bill collectors. One died in a San Fran cisco poorhouse; sentimental fans saved another from a pauper's grave. Growing prestige, says Professor Gregory, has opened a new world...
...spared plenty. He was a longtime trustee of Columbia University and La fayette College, campaigned hard for the United Negro College Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, gave generously to religious groups. One 1955 gift: $1,000,000 to the Genesee (N.Y.) Conference of the Methodist Church...