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...Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Died. William Bingham II, 75, Cleveland-born philanthropist, famed for his efforts to improve rural medical facilities throughout the New England area; in Miami Beach. In the 1920s and '30s Bingham gave away $3,000,000, much of it for the organization and support of the Bingham Associates Fund and Boston's Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital to make metropolitan medical facilities available to country doctors...
Radcliffe has received $654,000 in unrestricted funds from the residue of the estate of Edmond Dana Barbour (the late Boston merchant and philanthropist), President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday...
...created world. But Calcutta's Rameshwar Tantia is a new kind of Hindu; he likes action-especially for his own home region of Marwar, in western Rajasthan. and for all the people in the surrounding desert country. A wealthy businessman (jute, tea, mining), 45-year-old Philanthropist Tantia has arranged new marriages for poor widows, paying the indispensable dowries out of his own pocket. His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies...
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...