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...Provost most certainly has established certain priorities for the needs of the College. Many pressing needs exist and we all hope they will eventually be filled. I hope you will agree with me, however, that the wishes of a generous benefactor cannot be entirely ignored, and that it is therefore fitting to use part of Mr. Burr's munificent bequest for a purpose that I am convinced was close to his heart. James R. Reynolds, Assistant to the President...
...Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back to work as a master mason in music scholarship, Adolf Hitler, he says, became "my greatest benefactor...
...needed by the blind girl for an eye operation, he is thrown unjustly into jail. After he gets out he finds the girl again, but this time, thanks to his generosity, she can see. The picture ends with a haunting scene: the heroine's shattering realization that her benefactor is the tramp, and his tremulously mixed reaction of joy and shame...
...score of claimants for the honor, only Weisberg was able to prove, by references to his original pledge card, that he was Superior's unknown benefactor...
Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...