Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave these millions? Speculation is divided, but among those mentioned most frequently are Campbell Soup, the Duponts, Bernard Baruch, and, perhaps less seriously, the C.I.A. Whoever it was, gossip has it that Princeton's president Robert Goheen convinced the anonymous donor to throw all his loot into one pile rather than spread it around. There are those who contend "Firm X" is still watching closely over the Woodrow Wilson School's progress...
...college, rather than the fund-raising pros, must nail down the donors. Operating on the rough rule that 90% of most drive proceeds will come from 10% of the donors, schools work on their wealthiest friends first. Early announcements of big gifts often entice other affluent donors to follow suit, although the approach has its hazards. One Midwestern multimillionaire kept complaining when a college stalled its announcement of his $100,000 gift; school officers could not tell him that they had expected $10 million and feared his example would induce every potential $100,000 donor to scale down...
Sometimes the school is so unprepared for the unexpected gift that the donor almost gets away. In 1959, for example, Karl D. Umrath, a retired cash-register salesman, rang up the switchboard operator at St. Louis' Washington University one Saturday morning and told her that he wanted to give the university $1,000,000. Some-what dubious, the operator tried in vain to reach Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, got no answers from several other officials. Umrath was just about to hang up when she finally connected him with the dean of the college of liberal arts. "I want...
...blueprints for the meanderings of the human mind, Sachs's collection was something not even to be possessed. He gave his private collection to the Fogg for study purposes. Labels never bore his name as lender or donor; the only identification they wore was that they were from "A Friend of the Fogg." Sachs, upon his death in 1965 at the age of 86, had given 2,690 works to the museum, a bequest by an individual to a teaching collection unequaled in its taste and scope...
Even in the delightful business of buying presents for children, the object often reflects the donor's own desires-the football from the frustrated athlete, the telescope as a gentle push toward studiousness-rather than an understanding of the child's inner world. Not that entering this world is easy; and, oddly, it gets harder as children grow older. The blight of depersonalization sets in with the increasing inclination of teen-agers to ask for and receive plain money. Explains one Boston 17-year-old, who insists on cold cash: "If they buy it, it's always...