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Since 19/23, our first year of publication, TIME has been sending special greeting cards (in the name of the giver) to those who received subscriptions as gifts. Some of those cards are reproduced on this page, and the one you received this year is shown below...
...unnamed giver established the $278,000 gift "for teaching and research in Celtic languages and literatures..." He later amended the provisions and threw in the "teaching of Irish, literature, and culture...
...Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign-a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer, explained that he had had the watch fob for 60 years and he wanted Stevenson to keep it for another 60. "And when I get through with it." quipped Stevenson, "I'll give it to Barkley...
This looks like a most uncertain investment. But so in essence are income taxes for a millionaire. The two situations are surprisingly similar. In both cases, money is being paid to people who are generally unsympathetic and often hostile, with no immediately obvious benefits to the giver. In both cases, the giver--be he the millionaire or Uncle Sam--cases his conscience, helps to create well-being and security throughout the community, thus interesting the entire community in preservation of order and obviating the necessity of hiring a vast army of guards to protect his own pile. In both cases...
Luxembourg: Music. Luxembourg, Ike's next stop, was a pleasant interlude. Ike greeted an oldtime Washington friend, Party-Giver Perle Mesta, now U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "What are you doing out here in this cold, Perlie?" At his ninth NATO capital in 13 days, Ike was pale and tired; he put off an appointment with Premier Pierre Dupong, took a nap after lunch, instead. Constellation crew members reported that the general constantly pored over documents during flights. "He doesn't even take time out to look out the window unless we point something out to him," an officer...