Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, explained yesterday that when Ward M. Canaday '07 agreed a year and a half ago to pay for the dormitory, only about half of the gift was delivered then in liquid assets and property...
Peterson said that Canaday also signed what was in essence a contract to yield the rest of the gift upon his death. Canaday is now 89 years...
...four with part-time jobs and a $106-a-month war-disability check from the Government. Now one of the dozen more important U.S. labor leaders, he is still struggling to build the executive expertise his position demands. At the same time, he brings to his job a gift for empathy...
Going the Three Wise Men 13 better, a Houston department store this Christmas is offering the services of 16 mail-order magi for a total cost of $825,000-which tots up to a lot of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Called The Ultimate Gift of Knowledge, a newly published catalogue from the Sakowitz company includes a choice of lessons from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such...
...able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want to be the best dancer at the country club? Mitzi Gaynor will dedicate a whole day of terpsichorean tutoring...