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Lanky, agreeable, fond of talking about himself, Reporter Rogers was well paid, drew many a big bonus for big stories. Once an unknown benefactor deposited $1,000 in the Rogers checking account. At Christmas his mailbox so overflowed with cards and gifts that once he remarked: "The whores and hoodlums always remember...
...appeal is for $2,500,000 for purposes "other than medical research." That has been amply taken care of by open-handed Lord Nuffield, the most princely Oxford benefactor since William of Wykeham or Henry VIII. Lord Nuffield, who used to run a cycle shop for undergraduates on the High and whose Morris motorcar works in nearby Cowley now make outlying Oxford town resemble a small Detroit, startled Oxford recently by handing over $10,000,000 to realize Sir Farquhar Buzzard's dream of a university medical centre (TIME, Jan. 4). It was also Lord Nuffield who started...
Harvard University will inaugurate something definitely new in the field of higher education with the opening on March 1 of the Littauer School of Public Administration. The School has been made possible by a great of $2,000,000 from a distinguished benefactor of the university...
Grateful for a succulent holiday gift which was inexplicably left at his Manhattan apartment, onetime Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the old New York World inserted an advertisement in the New York Times: "PULITZERS want to thank unknown benefactor for six anonymous ducks...
...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...