Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest although perhaps less self-righteous and should be an appreciable advantage from the point of view of the donor country. There are no grounds for regarding the new regime as a puppet seeking to perpetuate itself by means of any foreign military...
...legendarily brought sinister fate to its owners for 300 years last week became the property of everyone in the U.S. By registered mail (postage: 90?; registry charge: $151.85), the Hope Diamond went from Manhattan to the new Hall of Gems and Minerals in Washington's Smithsonian Institution. Donor: Harry Winston, the jeweler prince, who bought the $1,000,000-$2,000,000, steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime...
...great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long made Rembrandt scholars uneasy. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum labeled the painting "attributed to Rembrandt" when it was received as a bequest, later returned it to the donor's estate. This week the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum unveiled a new acquisition that unmasks the mystery: a new version of St. Bartholomew, which is clearly the original, demoting the other to the status of an uninspired copy by one of Rembrandt's followers...
...trust was formed for the mosque, however, and last spring an anonymous donor placed $50,000 in escrole to match the initial gift of the Prince...
...anonymous donor has declared that he is "interested in helping, but not building" the mosque, Ibish said, and the Society must provide an equivalent sum before any of the money can be spent. Ibish explained that the Islamic Society is incapable of raising enough money...