Word: benno
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...DIED. BENNO SCHMIDT, 86, pioneer venture capitalist, health-policy adviser to several Presidents and father of former Yale president Benno C. Schmidt Jr.; in New York City. A J.H. Whitney partner, Schmidt backed risky start-ups, including Minute Maid orange juice--which he at first deemed "tinny" in taste...
Pratt's confidence in "The Hut on Fowl's Legs" was beyond belief. It sounded as if he had been playing this piece for twice his age. But what made the entire performance of "Pictures" truly great, as good as the golden Benno Moiseiwitsch recording, was his huge sound at "The Great Gate of Kiev." The audience was completely under his spell. And his choice of encore, the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung," sent everyone home smiling...
...January 1987 Overlap meeting, "everyone agreed that this program has caused much unhappiness at all levels of the administration at other schools." Princeton denied that the program was an end run around the Overlap pact. A Dartmouth official called the denial an act of "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during a deposition, "I would really not have thought a person as well trained in the law as Mr. Schmidt would make such a blatantly foolish assertion...
...Rudenstine is to fulfill his duties as president, transcending the role of supreme fundraiser (ever heard of Benno Schmidt?), he must recognize that the presidency also includes the roles of scholar and academic. If he hopes to successfully carry out his many duties, Rudenstine must give himself time to rest and reflect every now and then. We wish him well as he embarks upon the second part of his term...
Rising crime rates in New Haven, coupled with a the widely publicized murder of a Yale undergraduate led applications to plunge 15 percent. Severe budget deficits were forcing the University to eliminate entire departments. And bitter disagreements between faculty and administrators prompted President Benno C. Schmidt to resign...