Word: largesse
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...years Harvester Heiress Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, cousin of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, was Chicago's Lady Bountiful. Before she died last February at 87 (TIME, Feb. 22), "Aunt Anita" had given away more than $10 million; even so, her estate topped $35 million. Her largess was distributed left and right, though in recent years, mostly left, e.g., $50,000 to Henry Wallace's Progressive Party presidential campaign...
Last week the results of this largess were on view in Paris' Pedagogical Museum. Among some 300 childish works done by boys and girls in France's Pacific possessions were nine drawings of special interest: they were done by six of the eight grandchildren of Paul Gauguin and Tehura. The most promising talent among Emile Tai's children was that of eleven-year-old Adolphe, whose dark browns and blues could, by only a slight stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show...
...Chest. The Reno Day Home, a nursery run by Catholic sisters, is a Smith philanthropy; the local Methodist Church paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church of the Nazarene have also benefited from his bounty. The source of Smith's largess: gambling. As head of Reno's famed Harold's Club, Ray Smith is the greatest crapshooter. blackjack player, roulette fan and bookmaker of them all-and he aims to stay that way by creating all the good will he can among the local citizens...
...have assumed that Governor Earl Warren was grooming State Comptroller Thomas Henry Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul) to succeed him as governor. Kuchel, a slight, friendly man, is one of the governor's closest political and personal friends, received his present post six years ago through Warren's largess, and has not only gone down the line politically for his benefactor, but has done an outstanding job as bursar of California's billion-dollar budget. Last week, however, the governor switched his protege to a new track, appointed him to the U.S. Senate to succeed Vice President-elect...
...about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned up on Tory placards. Clement Attlee, making a virtue of his plainness, and of the Socialist largess, liked to look out over an audience that was plainly but warmly dressed and say: "I think you compare favorably with a 1945 crowd." It was an effective trick...