Word: philanthropist
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...more he listened to his friend's description of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, that day in the 1830s, the more excited became Manhattan's great Philanthropist Peter Cooper. Once a $25-a-year apprentice to a coachmaker. Cooper had risen to fame and fortune with only about a year's formal schooling behind him. But in Paris, according to his friend, there were hundreds of poor young men willing to live "on a bare crust of bread" to attend the Ecole. As the friend went on, Cooper began to think: "How glad I should have been...
...endless stint of "lecturing, writing, making television appearances," Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta confessed that she has turned mercenary for a good purpose. Her pet project: subsidizing 18 foreign students in their U.S. studies, footing all bills including those for tooth paste. Said Philanthropist Mesta: "That's why I have to work so hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced about...
Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world records; in Melbourne...
Died. Sir Robert Ho Tung, 93, Hong Kong financier and philanthropist, father of Lieut. General Ho Shai Lai, chief of the Nationalist Chinese military delegation at the U.N.; in Hong Kong. Born 21 years after Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, Sir Robert joined Jardine, Matheson & Co., soon became its leading comprador (liaison between foreign companies and Chinese merchants), made a million by the time he was 34. Knighted by George V in 1915, he was one of the three famed "Hong Kong knights...
...Modlin ticked off basic personality types, and told how to recognize some of the tricks of the unconscious in employees' behavior. Examples: a compulsive, conservative accountant may be reacting against childhood impulses to be dirty and rebellious; an ambitious man may have developed from a passive child, a philanthropist from the bullyboy who tied tin cans to cats' tails; an employee oversuspicious of everybody else's motives may act that way because his own unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will not even ask for a raise may be covering up intolerable...