Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and successors were assured of an imposing domicile. For a permanent home for Ambassadors in London, the U.S. accepted a gift from dime-store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
Charles de Gaulle did a little horsepower trading. For his 1942 33-h.p. Cadillac, a gift from Dwight Eisenhower, a dealer gave him "something less imposing": 1) a 16-h.p. Delahaye, which le grand Charlie handed over to a relief agency; 2) a 13-h.p. Hotchkiss for Mme. de Gaulle; 3) an n-h.p. Citroen for himself...
Twelve needy students, six boys and six girls, were selected to receive the initial gift, and have addressed their lettersters of thanks to Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '46, Chairman of the Student Council Committee, who has had them translated into English...
...Hemingway novel would gain admittance to the Widener Library stacks only if it were about the University or Cambridge, or presented as a gift "We," said Keyes De Witt Metcalf, University librarian, in an interview yesterday, "are not interested in buying new fiction, except novels that deal with Harvard. Cambridge, or Boston--novels that would be different if they dealt with other cities...
...Cabinet, the Reds supported President-Premier Bidault's stand opposing the Molotov plan. But as good Communists, they knew that Stalin was still Stalin and Molotov his prophet. Its faith unshaken, but its vital gift for rationalization badly disrupted, Communist Humanite babbled: ". . . no insoluble divergence. Subsequent discussions will explain these questions more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism...