Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death's final cadence this week closed the long career of a frail, wispy-haired Pole, the greatest pianist of his time, and one of the three greatest who ever lived. Patriot, man of affairs, bon vivant, philanthropist, Ignace Jan Paderewski had not played publicly since Poland fell. '"I simply could not stand it," he said...
Died. William Guggenheim, 72, philanthropist, maverick younger brother of the copper & nitrate tycoons; in Manhattan. He retired from active participation in the family's businesses in 1900, 16 years later sued Brothers Isaac, Daniel, Murray, Solomon and Simon for $10,000,000, charging they had induced him to waive rights in Chilean mines of whose values he had been ignorant...
Since the late Andrew Mellon's new National Gallery of Art opened its bronze doors on Washington's Constitution Mall (TIME, March 24), many a critical connoisseur has looked Philanthropist Mellon's gigantic gift straight in the pink marble mouth. Architects have grumbled that the National Gallery is as massively old-fashioned as Grant's Tomb. Artists complained that the gallery ought to have made some provision for accepting contemporary art. Connoisseurs sniffed that its collection is sadly deficient in French...
...idea of the awards was conceived by Lambdin Kay, public-service director for station WSB in Atlanta, and strenuously pushed by University of Georgia's publicity-minded dean of journalism, John E. Drewry. The University of Georgia itself awarded them, dubbing them after its late patron, Philanthropist George Foster Peabody, great & good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, who helped to found the Warm Springs Foundation...
...Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world as Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived at Cranbrook, dividing the honors of its famous Art Academy with Scandinavian Modern Architect Eliel Saarinen. Sculptor Milles teaches, but goes on hewing and casting too. Says...