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Five of the windows in the office of T. Mellon & Sons are made of opaque, leaded glass which shuts out the contradictions of Pittsburgh's ugly business district. But a sixth window of clear glass opens like an eye in the blackened granite face of the old Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue...
...Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, gave $5,000,000 to Harvard for a new Business School classroom building with a string attached: other donors must match his gift by July 1950. ¶ The Old Dominion Foundation (set up by Paul Mellon, Yale '29) gave Yale University and Vassar College $2,000,000 each to finance psychiatric studies...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Luther G. Holbrook of T. Mellon & Sons; Richmond, Virginia, Irving D. Dawes '12, Vice-President & Treasurer of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp.; St. Louis, Missouri, Gupton A. Vogt, Assistant Secretary of Hess & Culbertson Jewelry Co.; and Seattle, Washington, Charles E. Eincaid, Trust Officer of Seattle Trust and Savings Bank...
...enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth...