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...late 1947, William Larimer Mellon Jr., scion of the Pittsburgh Mellons, was rich and 37, with a pretty wife and children and a new house on a smooth-running Arizona ranch. He was looking through the pages of LIFE one day when he stopped at a picture story about Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who 51 years ago gave up a brilliantly versatile career−as theologian, organist, teacher and musicologist−to become a doctor and work among the natives in the African jungle. "There was a picture of Dr. Schweitzer and an antelope," Mellon recalls. "I had thought...
Gradually a strange and consuming determination took hold of Mellon. His wife Gwen gulped when she heard it: sell the ranch, become a physician and follow in Schweitzer's footsteps. Larry Mellon had plenty of money, but both age and education were against him−he had left Princeton after his freshman year. Mellon wrote to the great Dr. Schweitzer himself, and back came eight pages of encouragement and advice...
Marriage Revealed. Audrey Bruce, 22, heiress to the Mellon millions, one of three grandchildren of the late U.S. Treasury Secretary (1921-32) Andrew Mellon; and Stephen Currier, 25, consultant to Boston's Swetzoff Gallery; on November 15, in Fairfield, Conn...
...Dallas this week, an encouraging advance on the drug front was jointly announced by Sloan-Kettering, the Mellon Institute and Parke, Davis & Co. Their newest drug: "D.O.N." (for 6-diazo-s-oxo-l-norleucine), which effectively inhibits the formation of nucleic acid in mouse cancer cells, but causes negligible harm to healthy cells...
...gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced on the Dreyfus bronzes, had them expertly catalogued in three massive volumes...