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Philanthropy on that scale is rare in U.S. education (it is one of the largest single-donor gifts any university has received), but general private support of higher education is still rising rapidly. The annual survey of 50 U.S. colleges and universities by New York's John Price Jones Co., professional fund raisers, shows that gifts spurted 11.3% last year over 1963-from $335,456,000 to $373,446,000. Contributions from individuals still provide the biggest single source of such funds (39.3%), but foundation grants are growing (now 33.1%), while bequests (16.9%) and corporations (10.7%) provide the rest...
...abdominal wall and enough of the uterus to expose the fetus' abdomen and one leg. He cut into the fetus' groin and put a plastic catheter in the femoral artery. Through this tube he withdrew much of the baby's blood and replaced it with donor blood. Astonishingly, this radical surgery did not kill the fetus. But when the mother later went into labor, the baby was too premature to survive...
Buff found that she averaged five visits to each major donor ($25,000 or more). She is especially sensitive to the easy disparagement that with her husband's name and the Times on her side, it is simple to get people to knuckle under. She admits that in many instances the Chandler name has been a help. But she insists that often her connection with the Times has had just the opposite effect. "Out of an hour's appointment with a man," she says, "I may spend 45 or 50 minutes answering questions about things in the Times...
...Women work very hard," says Buff, "when you give them a specific goal and a time limit." She has also been successful with a mass pitch, distributing shopping bags called "Buck Bags" to raise $500,000 in contributions, to be matched by another $500,000 by an anonymous donor...
...several years interpreted "handicapped" students supported by the Will Rogers Fund to mean financially handicapped. Other colleges plead with donors or their heirs to liberalize the ground rules, and often win. Adelphi University on Long Island accepted a scholarship reserved for applicants named Smith from nearby Franklin Square, which proved to be short of smart Smiths. Finally the dean of students successfully appealed to the donor to limit his restriction to qualified residents of Franklin Square, and a bright lad named Montgomery won the scholarship...