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...nearly everyone, a mania for collecting is a transitory phase of childhood. But for a few, the habit becomes a lifelong obsession. For Manhattan Art Dealer Sidney Janis, it began with hoarding marbles during his boyhood in Buffalo, and led to a perceptive collection of 20th century art. For Anne Kinsolving Brown, daughter of a Baltimore minister, the impetus came from a book on soldiers that she spied in a toy store at the age of nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave...
...best foundations are acutely conscious of their public image and obligations, and sensitive to the need for periodic 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...
...abroad, foundations must be constantly alert to the complexities of the world and of their own responsibilities to all society. Their very charters, as the New World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution is to make ourselves no longer necessary...
...even while creating some problems for the industry. Sadler also conceived airline credit and the cut-rate fare for military personnel. Many an airline traveler is losing a friend he never knew he had. Along with collecting coins and studying Latin, onetime Schoolteacher Sadler's weekend habit was to fly to American cities, listen to complaints-and try to correct the problems...
...shocking two point victory over the Quakers--who beat Harvard by 13 points--was Dartmouth's first win of the season; they have lost nine. Unless Harvard curbs, its sad habit of throwing away ballgames, it is quite likely that Dartmouth will score its second victory tonight...