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...overlook a major benefactor of his purses--the Internal Revenue Service. He said his Charity would begin "after I paid my taxes and paid everybody...
...nation. Winthrop said, "I am not so much interested in the general public as I am in the Younger Generation whom I want to reach in their impressionable years..." Winthrop felt he could best fulfill his ambition at Harvard and he became the Fogg Art Museum's greatest benefactor...
...picked up in a car outside his two-story brick home in the Druid Hills section of Atlanta by a heavy-set white man, ostensibly for a visit to the man's attorney for more discussion about the oil. Instead, once Murphy was in the car, the mysterious "benefactor" pulled a gun and announced: "Mr. Murphy, you have been kidnaped...
...Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment on the extent of his fortune, and gallantly accompanied his benefactor Dame Agatha, 83, to a party celebrating the historic anniversary...
...greatest benefactor of all prefers anonymity: only a bronze plaque at Lincoln Center honors John D. Rockefeller III, whose $20 million seed money turned the idea into reality...