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...highest salary in twelve terms was only $9,300. But Bridgeport, Conn.'s late Mayor Jasper McLevy, 84, a Socialist with a banker's respect for a dollar, proved as frugal with his own funds as he had been with those of his city. He left an estate of $125,000, most of which goes to his wife and family, with one $600 bequest set aside to establish an appropriate annual essay prize for high school seniors. Subject: "How to Set Up an Annual Budget for the City of Bridgeport...
...Frugal and unfrivolous, she epitomized the solid Dutch virtues. Though she dressed like a dumpy Dutch huisvrouw in her frumpy hats, flat shoes and baggy tweeds, she was one of the world's richest women. She had a personal income of $5,000,000 a year from the East Indies alone. Even after Indonesia won its independence, she was worth at least $100 million in real estate, Royal Dutch Shell stock, paintings and bank holdings...
...Center. Buick, sponsor of Sing Along, handed her a Wildcat last year and will soon come through with another 4,000 Ibs. of rolling gratitude. She also gets $2,500 a week and her guest-appearance fee is $10,000. Her allowance is $20 a week. She is as frugal as Scrooge's grand mother with the tangible cash in her purse, but with checks and charge accounts she is like Mrs. Everyman: she charges things and writes checks as if Parker Brothers had invented the game. And in the world she lives in, they probably...
Corning has grown successfully under the stewardship of a single family for five generations. Founded in 1851 by a frugal Yankee named Amory Houghton, Corning is still controlled by the Houghton family, whose members are estimated to own 40% of its stock (worth roughly $440 million). Its current president is a great-great-grandson of the original Amory, boyishly intense Amory ("Amo") Houghton Jr., 36, who stepped up after Decker, 61, was named chairman last year. Like his predecessors, Amo Houghton is dedicated to the formula of freewheeling, long-range basic-research spending-he is fond of calling it "patient...
...course I am not thinking of the law alone, but of economics, government, history, classics, literature, fine arts, languages, philosophy, education, design, public administration--all the areas of knowledge that go to make up a great university. These should not simply be left to their own devices and their frugal fate. There is, I venture to suggest, a positive duty to strengthen them, through the development of the University's resources and potentialities, on a basis which will not be too disproportionate to the vitality which has been pumped into the natural sciences and medicine out of resources made available...