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...York Stock Exchange at $46.50 a share. In his philanthropy, Black shows no less financial hustle. The one string he attached to his Columbia gift is a stipulation that the Parkinson's Disease Foundation get all the interest on the $5,000,000 until Columbia gets to work on the new medical building. Since delay means a sizable loss to Columbia (at least $175,000 yearly), the university hopes to start construction immediately. Says Philanthropist Black: "I want to see with my own eyes the results of my good intentions...
...three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure. Naturally, I would like to see my boys train longer, but if I took them out of their factories, they'd never get back in again." Liechtensteiner parents...
...late Joyce Gary was no sociologist, no judge; he was a superb storyteller, and his portrait of misbehaving youngsters in this 1940 novel (published in the U.S. for the first time) is both sympathetic and accurate. If it lacks the weight and ironic wisdom of some of his later work (The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised), it nevertheless shows the famous Gary virtues: a clear and economical style, a sharp wit, and a joy in human existence...
...love children," said Siobhan McKenna during her visit to the Hasty Pudding Institute Friday, "because they are not childish--they are child-like. Children are wonderful because they want to be possessed. I love to work with them, to stand on the stage and hold them in the palm of my hand. This is total involvement, and this is what I believe...
...girl," she pronounced. "I believe in the author who one day sits down and writes a fine and sensitive play. But, she added, "I can't stand the author at rehearsal." There his sentivity becomes so destructive the actor "wants to kill him before he destorys his own work," she explained...