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...heard Mr. Nathan mention the name of Theron Caudle (who was fired last month as head of the Justice Department's tax division-TIME, Nov. 26). Mr. Nathan did this, she said, "to impress me with the fact that the Nathans were such good friends of such an affluent person in the Government...
...College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...association of maple sugar merchants of the Vermont region who felt a need for an institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early gifts was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Open, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the infant school in his honor...
...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...
...period had been too long underrated. They began buying up the best examples they could find. As they prowled from dealer to dealer, prices rose, and so did the reputations of such little-known artists as John Quidor, Martin Johnson Heade and Fitz Hugh Lane. Less affluent collectors, sniffing the same faint scents, helped stir the interest of attic rummagers...