Word: philanthropist
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With six of the seven Goldschmidt paintings bought for U.S. collectors, the experts began guessing for whom the dealers were fronting. Hottest rumor: the record-breaking Cezanne and two Manets had been bought for Philanthropist Paul Mellon. Eventual destination: the National Gallery, Washington...
...have envied. Yet: 1) Rockefeller is a tyro at the game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing. For Nelson Rockefeller is the grandson of the greatest tycoon of them all, the second son of the nation's most generous and most retiring philanthropist. He is a man who is a Croesus in his own right ($100 million, give or take a million), a man who in 30 years has counseled three Presidents, changed the living standards of large sections of South America, carved out a place in commerce, culture and international diplomacy. Adding...
Kansas City, Mo. last week unveiled its handsomest sculptural adornment, a towering group surrounded by fountains on the paved mall near the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. The bronze statues, paid for with money from schoolchildren and local organizations, were dedicated to Kansas City's greatest philanthropist, German-born William Volker, a household-goods merchant (picture frames, window shades) who became a multimillionaire, gave away an estimated $10 million in charity before he died in 1947. As the last work of the late great Swedish-born Sculptor Carl Milles (TIME Color, June 27, 1955), the memorial was also...
...nomination, "that I was not drafted for this nomination. I worked and fought from one end of the state to the other." He had done just that. Rockefeller's intensive campaign began last June. It started with a big name and a long record of public service as philanthropist and big businessman, as State Department expert on Latin American affairs, Under Secretary of the Health, Education and Welfare Department (1953-54), and military reorganization adviser to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
...chemistry, might be presented in films belongs to Dr. Thomas Jones of the National Science Foundation, who conceived the project as a Brussels Fair exhibit. But "the U.S. Government is very poor," Chemist Eyring observes pointedly, and there was no federal financing to be had. Eventually 83-year-old Philanthropist Alfred P. Sloan Jr. heard of Jones's plan, and although the fair deadline had passed, agreed to development and production through his Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Ford Foundation is paying for prints and distribution...