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Died. Jeremiah Milbank, 85, financier and philanthropist; in Greenwich, Conn. A Wall Street banker and heir to a railroad, banking and manufacturing fortune, Milbank set up the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled after World War I to help train permanently injured veterans and civilians. In 1928 he established the original pilot study of poliomyelitis, which led to formation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover, Milbank was a large contributor to the Republican Party and served as eastern treasurer for the G.O.P. National Committee during the 1928 and 1932 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1972 | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

Died. Jane Grant, 79, early Women's Liberationist and co-founder of The New Yorker magazine; of cancer; in Litchfield, Conn. Though she came to New York with hopes of a musical career, Grant's real talent was as a journalist. She joined the New York Times in 1912 and became the paper's first woman general assignment reporter. During World War I she met Harold Ross when he was a private working on Stars and Stripes. They married, then combined their resources to form The New Yorker. In 1921 she also helped organize the Lucy Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

Fifteen years out of Harvard, Scott looks back on a career of acting and directing. Of the two, he prefers "whichever I haven't done last." He has directed frequently in university theatres -- Brandeis, Hofstra, Atlanta, Adelphi, U. Conn., as well as with professional companies, and acted in and out of New York...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: With Harold Scott | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

After Harvard, Scott will return to his home in Chelsea, the increasingly fashionable section of Manhattan north of the Village, and to his double career. This summer he directs for the Eugene O'Neill Foundation in Waterford, Conn., which accepts a series of new scripts every year for professional production...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: With Harold Scott | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

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