Word: mellon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was when a woman expected to wait until ripe middle age before she was presented with a mink coat-if she got one at all. "Today," says Sam Mellon, manager of Chicago's Evans Furs, "they're buying them at 19 or 20." One of the reasons is that mink coats, formerly the badge of the successful matron (or mistress), have succumbed to the youth-oriented trend in fashion. Coats are now short, shaped to the body and sometimes come pieced together to create checks, stripes and herringbone patterns...
...Paulo biennials. It is also the most hard pressed. While the other two are under government sponsorship and invite nations to submit and finance their individual exhibits, the Pittsburgh exhibition, founded in 1896 by Andrew Carnegie, is backed almost entirely by a few private donors, principally the Mellon family...
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Paul Mellon, LL.D., philanthropist...
Cost is still the biggest problem. Carnegie Tech spends $3,000,000 a year just to operate its three-computer Compcenter, which will add a fourth computer and employ 14 full-time professors next fall-partly by courtesy of a $1,000,000 gift from Richard K. Mellon. With 43 remote stations, Dartmouth's $2,500,000 facility pegs the cost for each second of student use at 70. Though appreciative of vast federal help in building computer facilities for Government research, college administrators voice a universal complaint-Government auditors do not allow charges for student...
...Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. And while the National Gallery refused to identify the private donors who had put up the sum, it was an open secret that the principal ones were the gallery's president, Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, son of the gallery's builder, and his sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce...