Word: philanthropist
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Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
...Ritter had died in Scarsdale, N.Y., reported that he had been a successful furrier and hotelman. Then the phones began to ring. Next day both the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram shamefacedly admitted that the Louis Ritter who had died in Scarsdale was really a real estate operator and philanthropist, confessed confusing him with a Louis R. Ritter traveling in Europe who dealt in furs and hotels. Still gloriously muddled, the News ran a followup story about Ritter's funeral services, jumbled together the biographies of the Ritters, living and dead...
...York. Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49, announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run for Senator, is no professional politico, but he has built a distinguished longtime record in public service...
Alfred Sloan, philanthropist LL.D...
Died. Sir Louis Sterling, 79, longtime ruler of the British Electric & Musical Industries combine, millionaire philanthropist who was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was knighted by King George VI in 1937; in London...