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...philanthropy bug continues to spread. In Regensburg, Johann Vielberth, a real estate developer, set up a foundation earlier this year to finance a new institute of real estate studies with four professorships at the university. Next year he will put up a new building to house it. Vielberth, 72, says that although his family has backed local causes for 150 years, he is formalizing that tradition and taking the generosity to a new level: the donation to the university exceeds $10 million. "It's time for a culture of philanthropy to begin again," he says. Given Europe's growing funding...
...Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note or a dead bug...
...caught over the summer of 1982 the venture capital leverage buyout bug,” he says. “I was just smitten with this notion of buying companies versus being an investment banker...
DIED. S.C. JOHNSON, 76, head of the floor-wax company of the same name; of stomach cancer; in Racine, Wis. The company, named for and founded by his great-grandfather, became famous for Johnson Wax but, under Johnson's direction, branched out to other products such as Raid bug sprays. A friend of the environment, he stopped using chlorofluorocarbons three years before they were prohibited, costing the company millions in the short term but earning consumer trust...
...always enjoyed research. I first did it in the summer of 1964, when I worked for a youth program in Harlem. They sent me to the Schomburg [Center for Research in Black Culture] to do a little research, and that's where I got bit by the history bug. It's not really work...