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...House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely benefactor of quite remarkable distinction...
...started out as a dentist (one of those who advertised), "Doc" Strub works on the theory that nothing should be painful for his patrons. There is not one "Keep Off the Grass" sign at Santa Anita. Says Doc, who fancies himself as public benefactor and administrator: "Our customers appreciate beauty enough not to destroy it. They have pride in their park." For those who like to sunbathe, Doc provides benches...
...University awarded him an honorary A.M. degree in 1931 with the citation, "A tried friend to his University, a benefactor, generous and retiring." In 1942 he received the third Alumni Association Medal for outstanding service to Harvard...
...have always regarded a good innkeeper as a real benefactor to the community," wrote the Rev. E. A. Newman, vicar of Hythe in Kent, in his parish paper, "and a well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely...
Lamont fund and SAC to the contrary, Yard police prevented a would-be benefactor of the College from giving his money away...