Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, this year the Leventritt finals were opened to the general public in an effort to give the competition some of the glamour enjoyed by major European competitions such as Belgium...
...ground of Folklorist Harry Oster. A scholarly teacher of English at Louisiana State University, Oster roams the streets and backlands of his adopted state to record its rich musical patois-French, Cajun, Negro French, Anglo-Saxon. In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads...
...also by Goodrich, reverently explores the austere, hermit master, who wrote to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have [a biography] appear, and as the most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public, I must decline to give you any particulars in regard...
...undiscouraged. Says he: "What can be better than trying to work it out in your head, and in your heart, too, about the big fish in the ocean? It's what keeps a man alive. Worrying about stripers ain't going to hurt. No, sir. Only give a lot of walking and smelling and good living. Worrying about stripers, you don't grow so's you're ready to bark and quit on life...
...handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...