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...Charles Mendl, 80, one of the last of the sabled international set, received a belated bequest from the late Albert Lasker, philanthropist and Manhattan adman: $5,000 and a box of 100 monarch-sized Havana cigars. Said Sir Charles, grateful but slightly puzzled: "All I ever did for Lasker was to get him rooms at another hotel when the [Paris] Ritz was full-up during the tourist season...
...admitting he's a piece of dirt. Why can't a dame tip her hat back?" Cannon keeps his pockets stuffed with notes for his "Nobody Asked Me, But . . ." columns. Samples: "Nothing improves an actress' diction more than marrying money." "I'm no philanthropist, but I always get the check when I dine with a guy who protects his bank roll with an ornate money clip." "If you have to make notes in a telephone booth, chances are the lights won't work...
...rook and winning easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
Being a radio & TV philanthropist has not been easy. When Parks started Stop the Music in 1948 on radio, his show was put opposite the successful Fred Allen Show. In less than a year, Veteran Allen had dropped from No. 2 in the ratings to No. 38. Fred Allen quit radio, muttering: "When people can get listeners by giving away three iceboxes instead of two, this is a silly business anyway." The next year Parks met, and has so far mastered, an even tougher opponent: the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 3-1, the FCC banned giveaways from...
Brothers & Stepping Stones. Encouraging the schools to serve the community has been the aim of the Mott Foundation since it first began its program in 1935. A onetime manufacturer of automobile axles who made a fortune in General Motors stock, Philanthropist Mott noted that Flint schoolchildren had little healthy recreation and almost no adult supervision once they got out of school each day. He decided to start a series of boys' clubs to provide after-school meeting places, andthe Mott Foundation was born...