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...catalyst for the project-someone so dedicated to the purpose that he will stay with it until the job is completed. This is something that no committee or group can do; it must begin and end with one person who will stay with it all the way." Like Buff...
...Europe at the time and was not consulted, resigned. Buff appointed a committee of top musical figures-among them Cellist Piatigorsky and Violinist Heifetz- which came up with a list of some 20 possible candidates. "I'm a great one for getting all the expert opinion I can," says Buff. "Then, after everybody has registered his view, somebody has got to say 'That's it-let's go.' This is my job." So Mehta it was. In Zubin Mehta's case, it was a job well done. He has made the orchestra...
Intensely Personal. When Buff is not saying "Let's go," she is getting other people to say it. Well does she know the uses of group appeal: she organized a "Blue Ribbon Committee" of 500 society matrons and housewives to bring in 1,000 people who would contribute $1,000 each (it took them five months, but they made it). "Women work very hard," says Buff, "when you give them a specific goal and a time limit." She has also been successful with a mass pitch, distributing shopping bags called "Buck Bags" to raise $500,000 in contributions...
Norman and Buff Chandler have not publicized their own contributions to the Music Center, but it is believed that they have given at least...
...Buff can also swing a benefit. To Hollywood stars and moneymen, it seemed presumptuous to ask $250 a ticket just to go to the movies, but they paid it for Buff's benefit premiere of Cleopatra...