Word: mellon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago that the parents of Thomas Mellon, then five years old, sailed from Londonderry for the U.S. To celebrate the anniversary, the family gave $250,000 to the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster to buy the old dwelling from its latter-day owner (who had thriftily converted it to a farm building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south...
...Washington, the National Gallery of Art and the Atomic Energy Commission have contributed $25,000 apiece to finance three years' research into the perfection of "atomic fingerprinting" for old masters at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. The technique, originally developed by Dutch scientists, consists of taking flecks of paint from genuine Rembrandts and Vermeers, then bombarding them with neutrons in a reactor in order to measure their exact chemical impurities. In time, the Mellon Institute hopes to compile a library of chemical analyses of the different types of paint used by a dozen famous artists-or at least...
...most impressive work now being done in Haiti is at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the mountains near Les Chapelles. The hospital was founded 11 years ago and continues to run largely on the money and personal commitment of Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Mellon, of the famous Mellon family...
Second Bulge. At a gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from...
Pittsburgh Banker Richard Mellon, called on Saunders in Roanoke to of fer him the opportunity of running the nation's largest railroad. Saunders accepted without hesitation. When he moved to Philadelphia, he took along a cadre of N. & W. executives who are still known around headquarters as the "Virginia Mafia." Before long the Mafiosi had eased 550 oldtimers into retirement. Almost nothing about the Pennsy remained untouched. Saunders, who collects cookbooks as a hobby, even hired a new chef for the executive dining room, ordered him not to serve diet lunches...