Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, announced that the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland would be sent back to England as a gift from Americans. Dr. Evans spent $50,000 to buy the manuscript at auction in New York in 1946, later got all but $5,000 back from anonymous donors who also wanted the script returned "as an expression of thanks to the British ... for holding off the enemies of freedom...
...Geoffrey Household is an Englishman with a quiet gift for telling tales. He made a success in 1939 with a story about a big game hunter's attempt to stalk Hitler with telescopic sights. After that book, Rogue Male,* he went to the Near East as an intelligence officer, seeing action in Greece and intrigue in Syria and Palestine...
Twenty-one hundred miles away, in Chicago, a 20-year-old university student named Barry Nathan pinned on his Gallup Poll button and sallied forth. He concentrated on first-floor apartments ("it's harder for them to refuse") and people waiting in self-service laundries ("God's gift to the interviewer"). Unlike chatty Mrs. Kadlec, he invariably opened his interview with the approved Gallup introduction: "I'd like your opinion on a few leading topics...
...family. Then he went back to the University of Michigan, where he is working for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Last summer he got married, took a free honeymoon trip to Banff. "It was very beautiful, even more so than we'd expected. I guess it was the gift I appreciated most. It was the one we got the most...
...additional gift of rare Oriental miniatures, was promised the Museum last Thursday when it was announced that Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller had left her 26-item collection to her husband, on the condition that the Fogg Museum receive it on his death. No estimate has yet been placed on these objects...