Word: kirstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballet, $2,425,000 to the School of American Ballet. The grants indeed entrust Balanchine with the future of classical dance in America. But though the honor may be Balanchine's, the victory belongs to the man whose name followed Balanchine's in all the announcements: Lincoln Kirstein, 56, Balanchine's patron, impresario, adviser and friend...
Soblen immediately appealed-and began scouting around for money to pay his bail, set at $100,000. Bonding agencies refused to lend anything, so his wife scraped up $40,000 out of savings and life insurance policies. An acquaintance, George Kirstein, publisher of the liberal weekly, the Nation, rounded up the remaining $60,000. He called Mrs. Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, wealthy wife of an investment banker, niece of New York's ex-Senator Herbert H. Lehman, and herself a sometime attorney for Alger Hiss...
...Buttenwieser did not know Soblen, but she put up the money (of which Kirstein promised to underwrite half) because, she said, she was shocked over the refusal of the bonding agencies to deal with a convicted...
Benjamin M Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations, emeritus, died Saturday morning of a heart attack while lecturing to business executives in the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School...
...Lortie, lecturer on Education and research associate in the Center for Field Studies at Harvard; Jessie R. Pitts, assistant professor of Sociology at Wayne State University; Mark G. Field, lecturer on Social Relations and research associate in the Russian Research Center at the University; and Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business Administration...