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...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...
Presumed Dead. Audrey Bruce Currier, 33, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Britain David K. E. Bruce and granddaughter of Banker-Industrialist Andrew Mellon, who inherited a major share of the family fortune, wasted none of it on the jet-set scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...