Word: mellons
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Approximately six personal gifts totalling $20.5 million should furnish much of the needed money. Fund raisers expect both alumni and non-alumni sources to provide these gifts. "We hope we can uncover for Harvard the same kind of gift represented by Mr. Mellon's $15 million contribution to Yale," the public relations director said...
...faculty has been strengthened, and its salaries have been raised. Last week Chancellor Litchfield announced a gift that should do much to realize the university's aim of excellence: $12 million, the great bulk of it to be spent for teaching and graduate study, presented by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Breakdown of the huge grant...
...University of Pittsburgh's new College of the Academic Disciplines, which will help coordinate the efforts of Pitt's various schools and departments. Said Financier Paul Mellon,* Yaleman ('29) and chairman of the trust: "This grant is made with the understanding that the salaries paid to the Andrew Mellon professors will be such as to attract eminent men capable of distinguished scholarship . . . and will be commensurate with or superior to the best salaries paid in like fields in any other American university [best guess: $20,000 or more]. It is hoped that this nucleus of distinguished scholars...
Born in Vienna, Gombrich is a British citizen and a member of the Warburg Institute of London. In 1956, he gave the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, Washington...
...1890s, when a handful of new U.S. millionaires decided, almost as one, to plunge into the art market. They had little experience, but in a time before income taxes, huge spendable resources. They bought widely, and sometimes competitively with one another. In the space of a generation, Andrew Mellon, P.A.B. Widener, Henry Clay Frick, and lesser financial titans transformed the U.S. from a cultural have-not to a treasure house of great art that could rival Europe's best (see color pages...