Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase. Last week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...last-named donation is the gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92, New York financier, for the establishment of a new undergraduate library to be erected on the present site of the Dana-Palmer House inside the Yard. The Palmer House, long a landmark in Harvard architecture, will be moved across Quincy Street into the area formerly occupied by Hocking House. Funds for the relocation project came in the form of an anonymous gift...
...Harvard-Yenching Institute was the donor of a $75,000 gift, and the Corn Products Refining Company gave $60,000 for research in physical chemistry. Erection of a new building to be used as a laboratory by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health was provided for by a gift of $150,000 from the Godfrey M. Hyams Trust. There were also three separate donations from national medical research groups for studies in infantile paralysis and cancer...
...Lamont's undergraduate library gift, to be supplemented by an additional $1,500,000 essential to the completion of the project, was the only donation listed for University construction...
...Pretty" numbers like Blue Bayou and a silhouetted ballet by Dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine aim for, and perfectly achieve, the qualities of dime-store and gift-shoppe art. As such they have great skill and a certain naive charm; but only genuine lovers of that kind of art can genuinely enjoy them. More likely to please everybody...