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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grateful were the relatives for Lance's help that LaBelle and Brother-in-Law Claude in April 1974 refurbished a cottage known as Eagle's Nest on the Lance farm as a gift to Bert. To pay for the work, Claude wrote $40,000 in checks on his already overdrawn Calhoun checking account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Little Help for His Relatives | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Capstone of Paul Mellon's years of patronage: an eight-figure gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Nation's Grand New Showcase | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...game hijinx at chilly MIT were particularly spectacular yesterday. Shortstop Burke St. John demonstrated some juggling ability of Harvard Square kiosk quality, while lanky Steve Baloff's ability to balance a fungo bat on his nose is a gift that few others can claim. Yesterday's Box Score HARVARD AB R H RBI Pearce, 3b 3 0 0 0 Santos-Buch, cf 4 0 0 0 Bannish, cf 1 0 0 0 Stenhouse, If 4 1 2 1 Bingham, 1b 4 1 1 1 Peccerillo, rf 2 0 0 0 Bowles, pr 0 1 0 0 Blood...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Brown's One-Hitter Railroads MIT Engineers, 5-0 | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...legs extended at four different levels. More often, what was missing was not so much technique as imaginative energy. Nothing in particular distinguished several perfectly competent dancers in the first act from perfectly competent performers in any of a dozen other balletic roles. If anyone knew they were the gift-bearing Fairies, it was thanks to the program notes...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: A Flawed 'Beauty' | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...acting in pilots for both NBC and CBS; Margaret, 32, who does TV and voice-overs in Chicago; Anne, 29, just married and acting in New York City; Joey, 27, who was once a teacher and has now taken off for Los Angeles with a gift of $5,000 from his kid brother and the promise of a screen test; and Sam, 34, who has worked for years as a shipping clerk at Faberge but, hooked on show biz ("While I was in the service in Europe, I did Dial M for Murder"), is learning to play the guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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