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...Geneva and Bern ("hot-air factories," his friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...
...guess of his own, cabled it to his paper. The Standard put in a phone call to a villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
...biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college-but had insisted on remaining anonymous. Who was he? Announcing the gift last fall, Vice Chancellor John Lowe said he knew but wouldn't tell; the mysterious donor could just go on being Monsieur X (TIME, Sept...
...munificent Monsieur X? Apparently he was determined to remain anonymous. All that Dean Lowe would say was that the donor was a shipping magnate, "over 70," who had hired many Englishmen and Oxonians for his business, had found them "particularly good and useful," and wanted more like them in the world. The donor also hoped that St. Anthony's might contribute to peace and "Western understanding" by encouraging Anglo-French friendships...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...