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...abandoning the chimerical hope of Continental defense and assuming a larger economic role, NATO is to become the free world's distributing agency. Although the U.S. will continue to foot ninety percent of the bill, NATO will now, nominally if not actually, be the benefactor...
...largest radio telescope in the United States, part of the Harvard Observatory, will be dedicated this afternoon in Harvard, Mass., to the memory of George R. Agassiz, a great benefactor of Harvard astronomy...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
...looks, he should have ample time to meditate on what that one ill-tombed caption cost him: his substantial savings, the paper (which he held under a Trujillo-granted loan of $640,000), an income of around $50,000 a year, and a $60,000 villa. Bootlicking El Benefactor, it would appear, is a remunerative business-while it lasts...
Scholar's Prince. What called Fra Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...