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...BENEFACTOR by Susan Sontag. 274 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...what capital city in Europe is a beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...
...thinks and acts like a poet. To many of us who have come to know and love Mr. Hilton, his "vanity" is the terrifying simplicity of the eternal boy who never loses the simple sense of wonder in the appreciation of small things. I met him as a generous benefactor; I have come to respect him as a truly great man whose optimistic faith and courage in the face of harsh realities turn such realities into success stories for protective top aides and doubting boards and trusting friends...
...today, and still as flinty and nosy and energetic as ever (though he had to give up tennis at 75). His gesture was characteristic of the man they call "Mr. Flint." His real name is Charles Stewart Mott. He is a multimillionaire philanthropist and the biggest benefactor that Flint-or most any other city-has ever seen...
...only a routine report put out by the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that broke the news. Mott has made a gift of 1,826,421 shares of General Motors common stock -worth more than $128 million-to the nonprofit Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, benefactor of the people and institutions of Flint...