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...often American assistance programs have backfired on the donor nation because of the perfectly natural resentment of the receiving nation towards its benefactor. The very idea of aid implies inferiority and even pity, concepts repugnant to the boisterous nationalism of many backward areas...
...even money," that they will raise the $5 to $20 million to construct the physical plant. But most foundations, while happy to finance reports and studies, decline to pay for buildings. If New College is to succeed, it will require an unprecedented loan, or a substantial gift from a benefactor who recognizes the educational advances the Plan represents...
...lovely little person" spends his days knitting towels (which Crabbe hawks after dark on the streets), reciting Euripides and telling his benefactor, "Oh you're inimitable." The affair does not last. Kemp recovers his sight and encounters an old friend, an officer in the Horse Guards named Theophanes Clayfoot. In high Victorian style, this "howling swell" sweeps Kemp off to his manor, and Crabbe is left faint with starvation, beset by creditors, an outcast. "Festering in his shell," he is "alone and naked -all alone with The Alone...
Died. Edward John Baker, 90, owner of the great trotter Greyhound, millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first for the town of Northfield, later renamed for Boston Benefactor William Carleton-survived...