Word: endow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avalon Foundation, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon* and ex-wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's David K. E. Bruce, gave $500,000 to endow a new chair in the history of science at Yale. The Avalon Foundation has made grants totaling more than $25 million since its founding, including $2,500,000 to Manhattan's Lincoln Center and $1,100,000 to all 86 U.S. medical schools to supplement scholarship funds...
...pique. For years the museum's founders-British-born Antique Dealer John Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist Dallas Pratt-have been spending summers in Britain, and each year found the British as dense about the U.S. as the year before. In 1956 Pratt set up the Halcyon Foundation to endow a museum, and Judkyn found the site. It was Bath's Claverton Manor, designed by George IV's architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville...
With pride, pomp and publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...
...maroon jackets, and some have quit rather than do so (chuckles Moran: ''They'd give anything to get out of those red jackets'') He usually fires any salesman who cannot consistently make $250 a week in commissions, but just being around Moran seems to endow most of them with a profitable touch of blarney...
...matter of production becomes crucial: a play so nonchalant and brittle needs more than the intelligent off-Broadway staging it has been given. It needs more gloss, more speed, more edged insouciance, needs the light shrug, the swift glance, the faint smile, the finished gesture, the unfinished comment that endow the semi-frivolous with airiness and enlarge the semi-serious into an attitude...