Word: fords
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Although the original assets of the Carnegie Corporation, the eleemosynary mammoth of its day, have nearly trebled since 1911, it now ranks only seventh in size, behind the Ford Foundation (incontestably first with $3.59 billion in assets), the Rockefeller Foundation ($804 million) and the Duke Endowment ($612 million), to name the top-ranking three. With a few other large exceptions, foundations scale sharply down from there. Only about 1,500, or about one in 13, are worth as much as $1,000,000, and there are plenty of mini-foundations, such as Chicago's Robbins Charitable Fund, with assets...
...introspection if they are to preserve their function as the implement of vital change. Philanthropic institutions can degenerate into bureaucracies, stiff with habit and overloaded with deadwood; it is difficult, for instance, to fire a philanthropist for backing a poor horse. Soon after taking over the presidency of the Ford Foundation in 1966, McGeorge Bundy declared his conviction that periodic personnel turnover at the disbursement level was probably a good foundation practice...
...like Jean Shrimpton," she said, "but not for long. My real goal in life is to design dresses." Trenny is already set for a modeling shot in the April issue of Ladies' Home Journal, and she has been signed on as a junior model by the top-ranked Ford agency. "I would hire her even if she had two heads," said Eileen Ford. "She has a terrific personality...
Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July...
...impressive showing of team depth, the Crimson's third line played inspired hockey to account for three of the eight scores, and the second line produced a superior defensive effort to repeatedly stall the Redmen attack. Third unit center Steve Barker accounted for two goals, and right wing Ford Fraker tipped in a single tally. Led by left wing Paul Sweeney's especially strong puck grabbing, the second line managed to shut out Dartmouth completely while...