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Gifts. Because California is still comparatively young, few tycoons of the first water have yet appeared on her alumni roster. But three famed and wealthy California families have made her bounteous gifts. The late Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of the Hearstpapers' publisher) gave the Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation...
...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...late Phoebe Apperson Hearst, daughter of a wealthy Missouri farmer. Famed for her beauty, kindness...
...Berkeley, Calif., President W. W. Campbell of California University made it known that Hearst Hall, a building promised by Publisher William R. Hearst to the University in memory of his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, will be a million-dollar structure instead of the $ 350,000 project announced earlier...