Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manie Sacks, a man scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
After starting out in the dress business in Philadelphia, Sacks charged into radio and public relations. As A. & R. man (artists and repertory) beginning in 1940, he coralled Sinatra, Shore, Benny Goodman and Harry James for the Columbia label. When he left for RCA ten years later, most of his stable followed him loyally. Later, his duties as NBC vice president in charge of TV programing and talent still consisted largely of coddling performers, listening to their troubles and shrewdly guiding their careers...
Last week Columbia announced the last payment received from Henry Krumb. E.M. '98, D.Sc. (hon.) '51, who died last December: a bequest that may reach $10 million-one of the largest ever made to the university. Of the $6,500,000 or so available now, Krumb directed that about $3,000,000 be given to the university's first-rate engineering school to help pay for a proposed $22.5 million engineering center. But the wording of his will showed Engineer Krumb's real love...
...proud of the School of Mines," he wrote. "It is in order that Columbia will never consider abandoning its school that I am making these bequests." The gifts: $100,000 to be added to a scholarship fund already bearing his name; $500,000 for a Krumb chair of mining; about $3,000,000 to make the School of Mines "one of the most efficient, best-known and largest schools of its kind in the world, with a reputation second to none...
Among members of the nonmining faculty at Columbia, the huge gifts caused some wondering. The School of Mines has a fine tradition-it was founded in 1864 and is the oldest in the country-but it has only 49 students and nine professors, for years has been merely a department of the School of Engineering. The wonderment is understandable: the chair of mining will be one of the U.S.'s most heavily endowed professorships...