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Frederic Garrett Donner, a slight (5 ft. 8 in.), bespectacled, grey-haired commuter, catches the 7:34 out of Port Washington, L.I. each workday morning for Manhattan's Penn Station, where he changes to the subway for his Columbus Circle office. Like many another straphanger, Donner has a habit of leaning out impatiently over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss...
Edward M. Purcell was appointed this week as the first Donner Professor of Science at Harvard. Currently serving on President Eisenhower's Scientific Advisory Committee, Purcell received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in nuclear magnetism...
...Endowed chairs in physical science paying some $20,000 a year will be established at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. under terms of $500,000 grants made to each university last week by the Donner Foundation, set up in 1932 by the late William H. Donner (of Buffalo's Donner Steel Co.). The professorships will be the highest paying at Pennsylvania and M.I.T., and among the highest at the other three...
President Pusey stated last night that "Harvard is proud, delighted and grateful" to have been selected as one of the recipients of the Donner grants...
...Donner Foundation expects that income from the grants will provide a $20,000 salary to the person selected to fill the position at each of the universities. However, at the current interest figure on similar Harvard endowments, the income here may come to nearly $25,000. University professorships are also based on a $500,000 endowment...