Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 47, is doing very well as an author. Sales of her two books, The Gift of Inner Healing and The Experience of Inner Healing, amount to some 185,000 hard-cover copies. Her estimated $160,000 income is turned over to Stapleton's nonprofit religious corporation, Behold, Inc. Jimmy's other sister, Gloria Carter Spann, 51, reportedly received a $50,000 advance to compile a book of her mother's letters from India, Away from Home: Letters to My Family...
...return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000. It has been stored at Fort Knox, Ky., after it was handed over to U.S. troops at the end of World War II by a Hungarian colonel charged with its custody...
...This gift sustained him through all his diverse careers. Nothing fades faster than newspaper humor, and some of the Myles na Gopaleen columns that Editor Jones resurrects should have stayed in the morgue. Many pieces, though, seem remarkably fresh. Humbug and absurdity have not gone out of fashion, and Myles was keenly aware of both. When a local judge levied a stiff jail term on a woman who had been caught shoplifting, the journalist commented: "I suppose he was right when he said there was far too much shoplifting in Dublin but I am not clear how one calculates what...
Harvard's Houghton Library houses an extensive collection of Wolfe's papers, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, and has "thousands of Wolfe's letters," Rodney J. Dennis, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard libraries, said yesterday...
...than 33% above the going rate) for 120,000 shares of the former Budget Director's stock in the National Bank of Georgia. The $2.4 million deal should leave a fat profit (a third of a million or so) in Lance's stocking. Then there was a gift from Wife LaBelle: a family portrait by Atlanta Artist Comer Jennings. LaBelle especially liked how Jennings painted her diamond pendant-the "broken heart," as she calls it, that Bert gave her after he resigned...