Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wheatley's boss, and topmost Brahmin around WGBH, is Ralph ("Mr. Boston") Lowell, the institute's sole trustee and perhaps the only banker who owns a show-business achievement award from Variety. Now that his operation is functioning smoothly, Benefactor Lowell finds it possible to report that through WBGH the Lowells now speak not only to the Cabots but to some thousands of Bostonians a day as well...
...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
...Benefactor Shriver's idea of how his early 19th century Georgian brick memorial should be decorated turned out to require the services of half a dozen artists and sculptors. On view last week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height...
AMONG the incidental expenses of our Rome bureau this month were such exotic items as "orchids for Maria," "champagne and caviar for Maria" and "food for Maria's poodle." The object of this tender solicitude was Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. Her benefactor: Correspondent George de Carvalho of the Rome bureau, who did the bulk of the reporting on this week's cover story, starting with the arrangements for the cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner...
...cheese workers had shelled out $2,000 to honor their long-dead French colleague. Last week, thanks to their generosity, a statue was unveiled in Vimoutiers for the second time in a century to the glory of the woman who did not discover Camembert cheese. "Marie Harel was a benefactor of humanity!" said Mayor Augustin Gavin, who had helped to dedicate the first statue. "I dare hope that a United States of the World will be formed rapidly and peacefully, modeled after the conquest of the world by Camembert." Said Will Foster, who paid for lunch for about 40 fellow...