Word: bankers
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With pride, pomp and publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...
...money was in a trust fund for his daughter Diana-a fund which Banker Davis started with a $4,000 investment when she was born 22 years ago. (Another $3,800,000 fund is in trust for Son Shelby, 24.) Diana, who has had full legal right to the money since the age of 20, not only refused to sign over her trust to Princeton but never even showed up at the bank. Said she: "He's just doing all this for his own glory...
...descendant of John Alden, and a man who dotes on his purebred lines, Banker Davis was so furious that he ordered his public relations firm to deluge New York newspapers with a five-page release denouncing his daughter and mourning the loss to Princeton. Diana already has "an assured $30,000-a-year income for life and a $100,000 cash gift," said Davis. He could "only attribute her unreasonable selfishness to the unrealistic materialism prevalent among American youth of today." When he some day asks Son Shelby to relinquish his own trust, added Davis, who knows a thing...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco feels that in a way he is "contemporaneous" with Shylock, since "some of my ancestors were bankers in Florence when Shylock was a banker in Venice." A promising pianist, Castelnuovo-Tedesco studied composition under Ildebrando (Murder in the Cathedral) Pizzetti, built a successful prewar career, but in 1939 his music was banned by Mussolini. He fled with his family to California, where he composed movie scores, taught, and became a U.S. citizen. Although he still lives in Beverly Hills most of the time, he returns to Italy periodically, because "there is not much future in writing opera...
...National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in 1824, and it was not until 58 years later that children got rudimentary protection-when, during a discussion of a proposed home for dogs, someone thought of setting up a home for neglected children. Wrote a Liverpool banker who was at the meeting: "The whole thing was highly irregular and I felt very nervous, but to my great delight, Mrs. Forrer, the president of the Society for Protection of Animals, said openly, 'I am here for prevention of cruelty, and I can't draw the line...