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...each week some bills go unpaid. For most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor $4,318,000 and the end was not yet in sight. Said Field pointedly: "I won't do it forever...
...like many another aging dictator, Crump considers himself a humanitarian and public benefactor, prefers not to remember the boisterous past. He loves to discuss the glories of Memphis, and is as sensitive as a surrealist painter to the slightest criticism...
Over three hundred years ago, the General Court of the Company of Massachusetts Bay appropriated 400 pounds for the founding of a "schoale or colledge." Although two years went by before the proposed institution actually opened its doors, and was officially named "Harvard" in honor of its first benefactor, 1636 is recognized as its birth date...
...endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College...
...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...