Word: philanthropist
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...Best There Is. A breach with the Times led the Britannica to sponsorship, for a short period, by Cambridge University. Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald took it to Chicago in 1920 when it was purchased by his firm, Sears, Roebuck & Co. In 1943 Sears turned over the Britannica to the University of Chicago, with William Benton, sometime adman (Benton & Bowles) and U.S. Senator, putting up $100,000 as working capital...
...occasion when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist Albert Lasker lengthily congratulated him in the innocent belief that he was the real-life hero of the newly opened Broadway musical, The King...
...tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats away, grinned broadly. Nelson Rockefeller, second of the five sons...
Funny & Serious. Impetus for the series came from the late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...
...Philanthropist. In Walden, N.Y., when it was discovered that kindly, popular Town Clerk (since '28) Richard E. Baird, 65, had for years been reducing people's water bills without their knowing it (with a total revenue loss of $16,151), that not a cent went into his own pocket and that his beneficiaries were rich and poor, friend and foe, even people he didn't know, his only comment was: "I really don't know...