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...good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched...
...life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla sugar daddy catches him with a younger man, Reyes' life spirals into a downward haze of methamphetamine and menial jobs. Reyes then snaps and goes on a murder spree, his victims including his rich benefactor and his boyfriend. Only then, Most Wanted makes clear does he finally feel wanted, if only because he is chased...
Edsel Ford was a cultured man, a collector and an arts benefactor, in a town and time where culture equaled "pie-eating contest." He supported expeditions to the polar ice caps. His philanthropic legacy lives on in the Ford Foundation...
Gates is a major Harvard donor and primary benefactor of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization in the world. With $33.4 billion, the foundation oversees the largest endowment any non-profit organization, surpassing even Harvard?...
...itself,” Bok notes in his abstract, “the act of accepting a donation does not imply an endorsement of the views or actions of the benefactor...