Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room, "to honor a very brave American soldier. The acts of extraordinary courage to which we pay tribute were not performed in hope of reward. They began with a soldier doing his duty-but went so far beyond the call of duty that they became a patriot's gift to this country...
...quite a treasure for an art dealer to part with. Still, explained Zurich's David Koetser, 58, "I am getting on in age. So I thought I would like to make a gift during my lifetime." With that, he presented to London's National Gallery the Allegory of Prudence, a magnificent 30-in.-by-27-in. canvas by Titian. The gift is valued...
...lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed I do," said the princess. She spent her birthday arranging the great bouquets of flowers that arrived. "I have flowers everywhere, even in the kitchen," she smiled. The best gift was that she could see them...
Woes & Wiles. Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer. During his junior year at Princeton, he is overwhelmed by the mindless undergraduate decorum of the place and flees to New York, a room at the Y, and five years of psychoanalysis. Nights, he works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen...
Honorable mention went to Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Wales Professor of Sanskirt, for An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry. An anonymous gift established the prize...