Word: benefactors
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...With practically every brick, room and building on campus named for a benefactor, it's hard to tell who really gave the big bucks. While Sir Matthew Holworthy had a prominent building named in his honor for a measly 1,000 English pounds in 1678, these days a mere self-titled professor chair takes a $3.5 million donation. Even that though, seems a trifle compared to the chunk of change John L. Loeb '24, LLD `71 (Hon.) and Frances "Peter" Lehman Loeb handed over in a lump sum in 1994: a whopping $70.5 million...
...Gifts to Harvard can take on other forms as well. Most of the art museums lack large endowments of their own for new pieces, and rely heavily on donors for new acquisitions. Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, remains the most generous benefactor to the Harvard Art Museums. In 1953, he gave a donation of over 3,700 works. Here, inheritance was the name of the game: This descendant of John Winthrop gave up practicing law after a few years to devote himself to art collecting...
DIED. PAUL MELLON, 91, assiduous cultural benefactor and environmentalist; in Upperville, Va. The only son of famed financier Andrew Mellon, he spent nearly $1 billion establishing such treasures as the Yale Center for British Art and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. For decades, he helped run Washington's National Gallery of Art, which he founded in partnership with his father. Mellon insisted that his gifts not be named after his family. "The idea of power has never appealed to me," he said. "Privacy is the most valuable asset money...
Schiliro, who's now running the FBI's investigation of the Africa bombings, remembers feeling a chill run through his body. His fellow agents had already discovered that the terrorist now had the cash to back up his threat. Yousef apparently had a benefactor, a wealthy Saudi expatriate named Osama bin Laden, who in the 1980s had bankrolled mujahedin guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and who had fled his Saudi homeland after he had been charged with inciting fundamentalist opposition to the country's royal family...
...longtime backer and moneyman for Gephardt. Aides to the Missouri Congressman were surprised to see Susman's name on Bradley's website, not only because Susman raised a big chunk of Gephardt's campaign war chest in 1988 but also because he has been touted as an important benefactor in any White House bid. Susman wouldn't explain his change of heart. Gephardt won't decide until January, but the defection suggested that he may not run. As one ally put it, "Dick has a 50-50 chance of getting elected Speaker in 2000. He has about...