Word: mellon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purchase-is clearly aimed at stepping up Chase Manhattan's competition with First National City Bank, the second largest U.S. bank, which bought up half of Hilton's Carte Blanche in September. This week, after a two-month advertising barrage, Pittsburgh's two largest banks-the Mellon National and the Pittsburgh National-will expand their longtime competition to a new dimension by bringing out their own credit cards...
...recognizable and hardly the crashing type: the Bobby Kennedys (who arrived one at a time in a beige Lincoln Continental convertible), the Stephen Smiths, Pat Lawford, Lee Radziwill, the Robert McNamaras, Douglas Dillon, Cartoonist Charles Addams, Author Truman Capote, Artist William Walton, Mme. Hervé Alphand and Mrs. Paul Mellon...
...Three" clubs are at Hyannisport, Wianno and Oyster Harbors. Not only do they hold their status because of the social standing of members, but also because they command most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster Harbors' members include Paul Mellon and A. Felix du Pont Jr.) This actually causes little concern to the theatrical people and artists who summer at the unsocial lower Cape towns of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown, or to affluent visitors who summer at fashionable Chatham, which has one of the best harbors for small-boat sailing...
...aide to General Lucius Clay in postwar Germany and as dean of the graduate school of business and public administration at Cornell. His selection was engineered by the late Alan Magee Scaife, millionaire industrialist, president of the Pitt Board of Trustees and brother-in-law of Financier Richard King Mellon. Scaife died...
Pitt had long been a Mellon family beneficiary-$74 million in the last 20 years. Last month Mellon and his wife quite pointedly gave $5,000,000 to Carnegie Tech, where students refer to Pitt's 42-story Cathedral of Learning as "The Height of Ignorance," and $2,000,000 to Duquesne. The Mellons are said to have soured on Litchfield's autocratic manner and his penchant for big-talk promotion. Litchfield announced in 1963, for example, a plan to roof over the 75-acre Panther Hollow as part of his Oakland redevelopment, and build an upside-down...