Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dining with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, the place where Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his cousin George V in 1910, Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany, where this week he will play host to Russia's No. 2 man, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, whose visit to Bonn to sign the new Russia-West Germany trade pact is further evidence of West Germany's heightened prestige...
...order to spark the progress of the Fund, "The Case for the College" will be rebroadcast Tuesday night at 9 p.m. over the N.B.C. network. Pratt estimated that approximately 150 stations all over the country would carry the show...
...then all at once the education fund ran out. Desperate, he went to see Gielgud, who got him a tryout-and another and another. No luck. Gielgud had nothing left to offer but a loan. Alec was close to starving. He had eaten nothing but a green apple, a bun and a glass of milk in 24 hours. His last pair of shoes were so far gone that he was walking the streets of London barefoot to save leather. But he refused the kindness and tottered out, weak with hunger...
Replied Larsen, who is also chairman of the advisory board of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools, board chairman of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, and an overseer of Harvard: "I feel that there was something presumptuous, if not insulting, in spelling out to intelligent educators and members of the N.A.S.S.P. precisely what they should think about LIFE'S article and what to do about it. Would it not have been more in the tradition and spirit of free inquiry to suggest to them that they read the whole series of articles in LIFE and then...
FORD'S TOP BRASS will join with Wall Street's Lehman Bros, to form new open-end, i.e., unlimited shares, mutual fund. Lehman will underwrite and manage fund, will have it buy out Aurora Corp. (assets: $36 million), an investment firm owned largely by Ford executives. New fund, called One William Street Fund, will have Ford Chairman Breech and four other Ford veterans on 13-man board...