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...Philanthropist Peter Bent Brigham died in 1877; it took longer than he had foreseen to get the hospital started in the Roxbury section, but in 1913 it opened its doors to Boston's indigents and thanks to a tie-in with Harvard Medical School, immediately began to make medical history...
...each. No. 5: Texas Oilman Clint ("After the first hundred million, what the heck?") Murchison, 62, $300 million. Tied for No. 6: Pittsburgh's far-visioned Banking Heir Paul Mellon, 49, St. Louis's fun-loving Brewer (Budweiser) August A. ("Gussie") Busch. Jr., 58, and money-pouring Philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller III, 51. In the No. 7 spot and tenth richest: the Coca-Cola Co.'s Director Robert Winthrop Woodruff, 67. What have they in common besides wherewithal? As Writer Parton sees them, few have ever been seriously ill, most have indefatigable "millionaire vitality," most are "loners...
...years of giving, Ella Fondren has tried to keep her charities as secret as possible. But now and then, as last week, someone decides to honor her. On one such occasion, she dutifully accepted the honor, then summed up her own philanthropist's credo: "No individual is honored as an individual. His life takes on a dignity as the causes to which he attaches himself take on dignity...
Died. Harry C. Black, 69, Baltimore philanthropist and board chairman (since 1930) of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Sunpapers; of a heart attack; in Boynton Beach...
Died. Marshall Field III, 63, burly. silver-haired multimillionaire philanthropist, New Dealing magazine (Parade) and newspaper (New York's defunct PM. Chicago's Sun-Times) publisher and rich man's grandson; after brain surgery; in Manhattan. Chicago-born Marshall Field was educated at Eton and Cambridge, never learned to bear comfortably the estimated $168,000,000 he inherited from nail-hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star...