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Reynolds is afraid that the proposed action may seriously hinder donations by "the medium-sized givers, a group that is awfully important to us." Under the bill, charitable gifts, interest payments and local taxes will be deductible only if they exceed five per cent of the donor's income. Most alumni donations, many of only $10, would therefore not be deductible...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
...began. Suddenly Castro stopped the release of the last three planeloads of prisoners, recalled that he had not been paid $2,900,000 in cash for the release of 60 prisoners last spring. With just one telephone call, Robert Kennedy got a $1,000,000 pledge from an unidentified donor-a fund-raising feat that should qualify him for the chairmanship of the United Arab-Jewish Appeal. The sponsoring committee pledged the rest, Clay borrowed cash against the pledges, and the Royal Bank of Canada gave Castro a check for the additional...
Solicitors will tour dorms, Houses and halls, asking each undergraduate to donate at least $10 to the Combined Charities or to a specific charity of the donor's choice. Because Radcliffe is included in the drive for the first time, this year's goal has been raised to $27,000, $3,000 higher than last year...
...center will also keep a master list of donors and a special list of donors of the rare blood types most likely to be needed in emergencies. No donor will be paid. By cutting out the professional donors, many of whom have been Bowery bums, the center hopes to cut the serum hepatitis rate from transfusions...